Description A middle grade novel in verse about Samira, an elevenyearold Rohingya refugee living in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh, who finds strength and sisterhood in a local surf club for girls. Samira thinks of her life as before and after before the burning and violence in her village in Burma, when she and her best friend would play in the fields, and after, when her family was forced to flee. Theres before the uncertain journey to Bangladesh by river, and after, when the river swallowed her nana and nani whole. And now, months after rebuilding a life in Bangladesh with her mama, baba, and brother, theres before Samira saw the Bengali surfer girls of Coxs Bazar, and after, when she decides shell become one. Samira Surfs, written by Rukhsanna Guidroz with illustrat...
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32,035 words416 pagesGrade 3 to 7
Published 20219781984816191
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