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One Boy from Kosovo

When war drove twelve-year-old Edi and his family from their home in Kosovo, they fled across the Macedonian border to the Brazda refugee camp, a tent city that housed almost thirty thousand people. There the family shared a tent with more than twenty other people, with no kitchen, no running water, and no school for Edi to attend. Instead he helped out with the younger kids, played soccer with the other boys, and ran errands, such as waiting in the long lines for food and fresh water. Everybody was waiting in Brazda — for news about relatives, for the war to end, for the day when they could finally go home again.Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2001, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council

Audience
childrens
Length
short · 32 pages

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