Title Girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after / Clemantine Wamariya; Elizabeth Weil. [Boundless electronic resource]

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First edition.

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New York : Crown Publishers, [2018]

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Description	1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
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Summary	-- The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of "victim "and recognize the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries and aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful, and bracingly original, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to constructing a life on her own terms.
Audience	HL 800 Lexile.
Summary	Traces the author's experiences as a young child during the Rwanda massacres and displacements, which separated her from her parents and forced the author and her older sister to endure six years as refugees in seven countries before she was granted asylum in the United States.
System Details	Requires Boundless App.
Subject	Wamariya, Clemantine.
	Civil War (Rwanda : 1994)
Chronological Term	1994
Subject	Refugees -- Rwanda -- Biography.
	Refugees -- United States -- Biography.
	Nonfiction.
	Biography & Autobiography.
	History.
	Sociology.
	Refugees.
	Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
	Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Refugees.
	Rwanda.
	United States.
Genre	Electronic books.
	Biography.
	History.
	Personal narratives.
	Autobiographies.
Added Author	Weil, Elizabeth, 1969- author.
Other Form:	Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Wamariya, Clemantine. Girl who smiled beads New York : Crown Publishers, [2018] 9780451495327 (DLC) 2017045871 (OCoLC)1001307330
ISBN	9780451495341 :
	0451495349 :

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