The Resource How fast can you run : a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch, Harriet Levin Millan
How fast can you run : a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch, Harriet Levin Millan
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- Summary
- Based on the real-life of Michael Majok Kuch, one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, follow the five-year-old boy's flight from war in southern Sudan, and his journey to find his mother. When the US grants approximately 4,000 unaccompanied minors political asylum, Majok becomes Michael, and he is given a new start in the US. Unfortunately his new life is not without trauma. This is the true saga of a survivor who summons the courageous spirit of millions of refugees throughout history, and it lives on today
- Language
- eng
- Label
- How fast can you run : a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch
- Title
- How fast can you run
- Title remainder
- a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch
- Statement of responsibility
- Harriet Levin Millan
- Subject
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- trueRacism
- Sudan -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Fiction
- Sudanese -- United States -- Fiction
- trueSurvival
- trueUnited States
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- trueUnited States -- Immigration and emigration
- trueAfrica
- trueAfrican people in foreign countries
- trueAfrican people in the United States
- trueAfricans in the United States
- trueAustralia
- Biographical fiction
- trueBoy refugees
- trueChild refugees
- trueChildren and war
- Historical fiction
- trueMother-separated boys
- Racism -- United States
- trueRefugee camps
- trueRefugees
- Refugees -- Sudan -- Fiction
- Refugees -- United States -- Fiction
- trueRefugees, Sudanese
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Based on the real-life of Michael Majok Kuch, one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, follow the five-year-old boy's flight from war in southern Sudan, and his journey to find his mother. When the US grants approximately 4,000 unaccompanied minors political asylum, Majok becomes Michael, and he is given a new start in the US. Unfortunately his new life is not without trauma. This is the true saga of a survivor who summons the courageous spirit of millions of refugees throughout history, and it lives on today
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- 10545421
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
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- Millan, Harriet Levin
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sudanese
- Sudan
- Refugees
- Refugees
- Sudan
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
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- a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch
- Label
- How fast can you run : a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch, Harriet Levin Millan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn960288057
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 293 pages
- Isbn
- 9781941861202
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)960288057
- Label
- How fast can you run : a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch, Harriet Levin Millan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn960288057
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 293 pages
- Isbn
- 9781941861202
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)960288057
Subject
- trueRacism
- Sudan -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Fiction
- Sudanese -- United States -- Fiction
- trueSurvival
- trueUnited States
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- trueUnited States -- Immigration and emigration
- trueAfrica
- trueAfrican people in foreign countries
- trueAfrican people in the United States
- trueAfricans in the United States
- trueAustralia
- Biographical fiction
- trueBoy refugees
- trueChild refugees
- trueChildren and war
- Historical fiction
- trueMother-separated boys
- Racism -- United States
- trueRefugee camps
- trueRefugees
- Refugees -- Sudan -- Fiction
- Refugees -- United States -- Fiction
- trueRefugees, Sudanese
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