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The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after / Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil.

Summary:

Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ran and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for safety. They did not know whether their parents were alive. At age twelve, Clemantine and Claire were granted asylum in the United States. Raw, urgent, yet disarmingly beautiful, this book captures the true costs and aftershocks of war: what is forever lost, what can be repaired, the fragility and importance of memory. A riveting story of dislocation and survival.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780451495327
  • ISBN: 0451495322
  • ISBN: 9780451495334
  • ISBN: 0451495330
  • Physical Description: 274 pages : map ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Crown, [2018]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
HL800L Lexile
Subject:
Wamariya, Clemantine.
Massacre survivors > Rwanda > Biography.
Refugees > Rwanda > Biography.
Refugees > United States > Biography.
Unaccompanied refugee children > Biography.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Personal narratives.
Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Refugees.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.

Available copies

  • 29 of 29 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Marion Library BIO WAM (Text) 37810435737217 Adult Biography Available -
Albemarle Main Library B Wamariya (Text) 31010000645863 Adult Biography Available -
Ashe County Public Library B WAMARIYA (Text) 50503300435981 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bladen Main Branch B WAMARIYA (Text) 30441100766740 Adult Biography Available -
Braswell Memorial Main Library B WAMARIYA (Text) 540191011099366 Adult Biography Available -
Cumberland Headquarters B WAMARIYA (Text) 31781065027086 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Dorothy Wightman Library ANF 967.57 WAM (Text) 30372101698725 Adult Nonfiction Available -
East Asheville Library B WAMARIYA (Text) 0020511817171 Adult Biography Available -
Fletcher Branch WAMARIYA (Text) 33258008420205 Adult Biography Available -
George H. & Laura E. Brown Library B Wam (Text) 30308101191261 Adult Biography Available -

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