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Thirteen-year-old Khadija, a Somali refugee, becomes a model for a famous fashion designer to help her family back home, while the designer's daughter Freya and fourteen-year-old Abdi, whose family Khadija lives with in London, try to protect her.

Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave.

In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu (the capital of Somalia), two-thirds of the city's population fled.

This book offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Somali immigrants.

"Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi, must confront his painful past"--Provided by publisher.