TY - BOOK AU - Uwiringiyimana,Sandra AU - Pesta,Abigail TI - How dare the sun rise: memoirs of a war child SN - 9780062470157 AV - DT450.863.U95 A3 2017 U1 - 967.572/042B 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York, NY PB - Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollinsPublishers KW - Uwiringiyimana, Sandra KW - Uwiringiyimana, Sandra. KW - Refugees KW - Congo (Democratic Republic) KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - United States KW - Massacres KW - Burundi KW - Bujumbura (Province) KW - Women refugees KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Bujumbura Region KW - YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION KW - Social Topics KW - Emigration & Immigration KW - bisacsh KW - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance KW - Violence KW - sears KW - Rochester (N.Y.) KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft KW - Young adult works KW - fast N1 - Ages 13 and up; Accelerated Reader AR; UG; 5.8; 9; 190492; Accelerated Reader; UG; 5.8; 9; Reading Counts; 6-8; 6.2; 15 N2 - Sandra Uwiringiyimana was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at night -- wielding weapons, torches, machetes. She watched as her mother and six-year-old sister were gunned down in a refugee camp, far from their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels were killing people who weren't from the same community, the same tribe. In other words, they were killing people simply for looking different. "Goodbye, life," she said to the man ready to shoot her. Remarkably, the rebel didn't pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped into the night. Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money, they struggled to stay alive. Eventually, through a United Nations refugee program, they moved to America, only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean, but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York. In this memoir, Sandra tells the story of her survival, of finding her place in a new country, and of her hope for the future ER -