Dawn, a California teen who has run away to New York, tries to contact her foster mother Louise, a Red Cross doctor in Pakistan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instead reaches Louise's assistant, Johar, a refugee from Afghanistan, and the two form a bond that gives them both hope and courage to face the future.
year: 2005, 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: refugees, fiction, runaways, musicians, september 11 terrorist attacks, 2001, new york (n.y.), fiction, afghanistan, fiction, runaway teenagers, fiction, new york (ny)
Editions
Stine, Catherine
Delacorte (2005)
Dawn, a California teen who has run away to New York, tries to contact her foster mother Louise, a Red Cross doctor in Pakistan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instead reaches Louise's assistant, Johar, a refugee from Afghanistan, and the two form a bond that gives them both hope and courage to face the future.
Schools: 6
Stine, Catherine
Laurel-Leaf (2006)
Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Dawn, a sixteen-year-old runaway from San Francisco, connects by phone and e-mail with Johar, a gentle, fifteen-year-old Afghani who assists Dawn's foster mother, a doctor, at a Red Cross refugee camp in Peshawar.
Schools: 0