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The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Dina Nayeri, Anna Bosch Miralpeix (Illustrator)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2024-05-07Pages:64
Language:EnglishPublisher:Candlewick Press (MA)ISBN-13:9781536233117ISBN-10:1536233110UPC:9781536233117Book Category:Young Adult NonfictionBook Subcategory:Social TopicsBook Topic:Emigration & Immigration, Civil & Human Rights, Emotions & FeelingsSize:10.00 x 9.60 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCV8PQGDDZ
"Infused with empathy and understanding. . . . This is a book to be read and discussed." --School Library Connection (starred review)

In 2018, Dina Nayeri--a former refugee and the daughter of a refugee--invited documentary photographer Anna Bosch Miralpeix to accompany her to Katsikas, a refugee camp in Greece, to record the hopes and struggles of ten young Farsi-speaking refugees from Iran and Afghanistan. Ranging in age from five to seventeen, the children live in partitioned shipping-crate homes crowded on a field below a mountain. Battling a dreary monster that wants to rob them of their purpose, dignity, and identity, each survives in his or her own way.
The Waiting Place is an unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time--and bravely proceeding anyway. Each lyrical passage leads the reader from one story to the next, revealing the dreams, ambitions, and personalities of each displaced child. The stories are punctuated by intimate photographs, followed by the author's reflections on life in a refugee camp. Locking the global refugee crisis sharply in focus, The Waiting Place is an urgent call to change what we teach young people about the nature of home and safety.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Candlewick Press (MA)ISBN-13:9781536233117ISBN-10:1536233110UPC:9781536233117Book Category:Young Adult NonfictionBook Subcategory:Social TopicsBook Topic:Emigration & Immigration, Civil & Human Rights, Emotions & FeelingsSize:10.00 x 9.60 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCV8PQGDDZ
Dina Nayeri is a former refugee and the author of the adult title The Ungrateful Refugee, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kirkus Prize. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries and in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Short Stories, the New York Times, and many other publications. Of her work with Anna Bosch Miralpeix for The Waiting Place, she says, "Each morning we set off, me with my notebook, she with her camera and tripod, to see these brave little people fighting back against the waiting place--the monster that wants to get inside you, to change you." Dina Nayeri lives in Paris.

Anna Bosch Miralpeix is a documentary photographer whose projects include the award-winning Bubble Beirut. A graduate of the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia, she is also a teacher and visual project developer. Anna Bosch Miralpeix lives in Barcelona.
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

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