Title Amina / J. L. Powers.

Publication Info.

Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2013.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department	J-MS POWERS	Check Shelf

Description	183 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Series	Through my eyes
	Through my eyes.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-181).
Note	Record machine-generated from publisher information.
Summary	Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother, forcing him to become a soldier in Somalia's brutal ongoing war. Although her mother and grandmother are still with her, Amina feels vulnerable and abandoned. Secretly, she begins to create her own artwork in the streets and the derelict buildings to give herself a sense of hope and to let out the burden of her heart. Her artwork explodes into Mogadishu's underground world, providing a voice for people all over the city who hope for a better, more secure future.
Subject	Somalia -- History -- 1991- -- Fiction.
	Somalia -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Fiction.
	Children's, Teenage & educational.
	Children -- Somalia -- Fiction.
	Civil war -- Somalia -- Fiction.
	Children. (OCoLC)fst00854835
	Civil war. (OCoLC)fst00862883
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Somalia. (OCoLC)fst01205351
Chronological Term	Since 1960
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	War.
ISBN	9781743312490 (paperback) $15.99
	1743312490 (paperback)

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