An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
Iraqi bombs drive the Hawramis over t.
Then her family must flee their home for the mountains of Kurdistan, but even there they are not safe.
But Tara still doesn\'t realize just how dangerous life for the Kurds has become until the Iraqi secret police come for her father.
Twelve-year-old Tara Hawrami lives a normal life in Iraq--until the day she sees a boy, a Kurd like herself, get shot by soldiers in the street.
No place is safe for Tara and her family.
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults