Katie Smith Milway
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"Separated from his family when they were forced to flee their home, a young East African boy named Deo lives alone in the Lukole refugee camp in Tanzania. With scarce resources at the camp, bullies have formed gangs to steal what they can, and a leader named Remy has begun targeting Deo. Then one day a coach gathers all the children to play soccer. Though Deo loves soccer and has even made his own ball out of banana leaves, he's unsure at first about...
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"Mimi's fictional village is like thousands of real villages in the developing world, where health care, especially among infants and children, is poor or uneven. As a result, every day, 21,000 children under the age of five die, most of them from diseases that could have been prevented with basic health care."--Front jacket flap.
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Editora Melhoramentos
Pub. Date
2019
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Portuguese
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Em uma noite terrível, Deo e sua família são forçados a deixar sua casa em Burundi. Deo acaba indo parar sozinho em Lukole, um campo de refugiados na vizinha Tanzânia. Os recursos no campo são escassos, e os valentões formam grupos para roubar o que podem. O líder de um desses grupos, um garoto chamado Remy, começa a perseguir Deo. Sozinho e com saudades de casa, Deo se consola fazendo uma bola de folhas de bananeira, do mesmo tipo daquela
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Cappuccina sometimes through it would be more fun to be a person than a cow. So Farmer Fiori's sprightly cow heads off to town! But her visit to the village isn't as satisfying as she had expected. Although Cappuccina tries on countless shoes, hats, and dresses in her favourite colour, she just can't find anything to suit her. Will Cappuccina ever experience the pleasures of being human?