Escape from Syria
Samya Kullab, Jackie Roche & Mike Freiheit
Amina is your normal young girl, about 10 years old when this book begins. She lives in Aleppo, Syria with her mom, her dad and her brother. She works hard in school and does well. Everything is good until one day a bomb goes off. Everything she knows changes immediately. Although her family is fine, they are forced to flee the increased fighting in Syria as rebel soldiers fight the Assad Regime, and then ISIS joins in. Amina and her family end up in Lebanon but life isn’t good there either. There is very little money, and when her little brother gets sick, the family has to go into debt to pay for his medicine. Perhaps the only way out is to leave the Middle East altogether and go to Europe, or North America. But being a refugee has its own dangers and Amina and her family are caught in the middle.
Escape from Syria is a great introduction to the tragedy of the Syrian civil war. While Aminia is a fictionalized character, her story has happened to millions of people who have fled the war. I thoroughly enjoyed this graphic novel.
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