Home Is Beyond the Mountains

Home Is Beyond the MountainsWhen the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, nine year old Samira and her parents, brother, and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother survive. Shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, Samira finally ends up in an orphanage, where it seems that she will live

When the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, nine-year-old Samira and her parents, brother, and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother survive. Shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, Samira finally ends up in an orphanage, where it seems that she will live out her childhood. Then Susan Shedd, the new orphanage director, arrives and, to Samira's amazement, announces that she will take all the children back to their villages to make new lives for themselves. With wonder and fear, Samira and three hundred other orphans embark on an epic march of three hundred miles through the mountains towards home.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: 08/09/2011
ISBN: 9780888999498
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 5.00h x 7.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2010 - Recommended - Hard To Beat

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 136863 / Home Is Beyond the Mountains
Reading Level: 4.5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 8