A historically relevant middle-grade novel-in-verse about a girl\'s resiliency when faced with hatred towards refugees. --Rita Williams-Garcia, Newbery Honor, National Book Award, Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, and Coretta Scott King Award Winner.
A supreme heart-changer.
These rich, vivacious lines combine an insistence on self with undaunted hope.
Told in verse, Wings to Soar follows a resilient girl and the friendships she forges during a turbulent time.
When it turns out he has been sponsored to move to the United States, they have to save enough money to join him.
While grappling with the hate for brown-skinned people in their new community, Viva is determined to find her missing father so they can finish their move to Canada.
Just when she is beginning to feel at home with new friends, Viva and her family move out of the camp and to a part of London where they are not welcome.
As they wait for him, Viva, her mother, and her sister get settled in camp and try to make the best of their life there.
Her father is supposed to meet them in London, but he never shows up.
It\'s 1972 and Viva\'s Indian family has been expelled from Uganda and sent to a resettlement camp in England, but not all of them made the trip.
Readers of The Night Diary and Inside Out and Back Again shouldn\'t miss out.
A historically relevant middle-grade novel-in-verse about a girl\'s resiliency when faced with hatred towards refugees
