While his mother and father help a family of African refugees, Jared learns that the people he counts on for doing good deeds are not always praiseworthy and is faced with a decision which may have implications for all.
year: 2007, 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: refugees, juvenile fiction, africans, united states, family, fiction, connecticut, juvenile fiction, fiction, civil war, africa, family life, connecticut, families
Editions
Cooney, Caroline B
Delacorte Press (2007)
While his mother and father help a family of African refugees, Jared learns that the people he counts on for doing good deeds are not always praiseworthy and is faced with a decision which may have implications for all.
Schools: 18
Cooney, Caroline B
WaterBrook Press (2009)
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.
Schools: 1
Cooney, Caroline B
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactor's in harm's way.
Schools: 0
Cooney, Caroline B
While his mother and father help a family of African refugees, Jared learns that the people he counts on for doing good deeds are not always praiseworthy and is faced with a decision which may have implications for all.
Schools: 4
Cooney, Caroline B
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.
Schools: 9
Cooney, Caroline B
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactor's in harm's way.
Schools: 1