Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan Mary Williams (Author), Gregory Christie (Illustrator) Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, then Kenya, and finally in the United States. This story is based on real-life experiences of a band of approximately 30,000 southern Sudanese boys, between the ages of 8 and 15, who walked nearly 1000 miles searching for a safe refuge. An afterword tells what happened once 3800 of the boys resettled in the U.S.
[Grade Level: 1 - 5]
