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Title	:	The Milk of Birds
Author	:	Sylvia Whitman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	April 16th 2013 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Contemporary. War. Realistic Fiction

The Milk of Birds

Sylvia Whitman

Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 508 Users | 120 Reviews

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This timely, heartrending novel tells the moving story of a friendship between two girls: one an American teen, one a victim of the crisis in Darfur.

Know that there are many words behind the few on this paper...

Fifteen-year-old Nawra lives in Darfur, Sudan, in a camp for refugees displaced by the Janjaweed’s trail of murder and destruction. Nawra cannot read or write, but when a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs her with an American donor, Nawra dictates her thank-you letters. Putting her experiences into words begins to free her from her devastating past—and to brighten the path to her future.

K. C. is an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, who hates reading and writing—or anything that smacks of school. But as Nawra pours grief and joy into her letters, she inspires K. C. to see beyond her own struggles. And as K. C. opens her heart in her responses to Nawra, she becomes both a dedicated friend and a passionate activist for Darfur.

In this poetic tale of unlikely sisterhood, debut author Sylvia Whitman captures the friendship between two girls who teach each other compassion and share a remarkable bond that bridges two continents.

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ISBN:	144244682X (ISBN13: 9781442446823)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Darfur,2008(Sudan) Richmond, Virginia,2008(United States)
Literary Awards:	Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Nominee (2014)

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Writing letters to a 14-year-old girl living in a Sudanese refugee camp helps a teen in Richmond, Virginia become more compassionate and learn important life lessons. Minor quibbles:The passages narrated by Nawra, the Sudanese teen, contain many unfamiliar words. For the most part, the meanings can be gleaned from the context, but some terms appear multiple times before the meaning is explained (or before the narrative provides enough information for the reader to deduce the definition). A

sadly, this did lean more towards a 2.5 star book than a 3 star one. i liked the characters and whatnot, but the freaking writing. one minute i could love it, than the next minute i would be on verge of dnfing it. not something i look forward to in a promising story.

This is an amazing, soon-to-be-published, YA novel. I couldn't put it down. The subject matter is tough - I wouldn't recommend it for anyone younger than 14. The story is told primarily in the form of letters written during the 2008-09 school year. Nawra is a young Sudanese girl living in a refugee camp. She has witnessed and been subject to unspeakable horrors. K.C. is a young American girl with some learning differences and some family challenges. They are connected as pen pals through a

Nawra is a Sudanese teenage girl living in one of the IDP (internally displaced people) camps as a result of the war in Darfur. A non-profit firm, Save the Girls, seeks to pair girls in the camp with teen girls in the U.S. in order to share their stories and experiences. Nawra is paired with K.C. who struggles with school and wants nothing to do with it. Gradually though, as they correspond each of them finds strength. Where will the experience take them? What interested me with this was the

The Milk of Birds was a staggeringly beautiful book. Nawra's sayings brought wisdom throughout the "first world problems" of K. C.'s sections. It was amazing to see the naive, lazy (if I may), discouraged American girl change so much as she began to appreciate the troubles of Nawra's every day life. The alternating viewpoints between Nawra and K.C. gave a peek of just how different our world is in a developed country versus an undeveloped one as the one Nawra and Adeeba lived in. The raw, honest

I remember when I was younger, ,y mom would take my sister and I to the dentist and in his office he would have the Highlight Magazine. Anyway in this magazine there would be a list of children who wanted pen pals. It was a pretty big thing back then, but it was only listings of the children in the United States. In this book an aid society asked for volunteers for pen pals and a small stipend to send to them, and American children were paired up with refuges living in camps. This is how K. C.

A story about the bond that develops between two pen pals, an American teen named K.C. and a fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee Nawra. I found Nawra's harrowing daily struggles to survive far more interesting than K.C.'s experiences which seem quite frivolous by comparison. I often became annoyed with K.C. and her issues because they are so completely trivial compared to Nawra's, although she does become a passionate activist for Darfur. Perhaps reading this will help American teens put their