'A book by someone like them': Refugee and immigrant girls meet author with a story similar to their own
Chapter 1: We were scattered, an unsettling feeling in such an uncertain time. For weeks I had been dreaming of home - our big yellow-brick house with a grass-green roof, filled with cousins and friends.
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The book club began meeting just a few weeks ago - a dozen west suburban girls already linked by their shared experience as refugees and immigrants, together eagerly turning the pages of a narrative that in so many ways mirrored their own.
Their teacher at Hadley Junior High School in Glen Ellyn, Ill., outside Chicago, introduced them to their first communal book, "How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child." Then they connected on Twitter and Instagram with author Sandra Uwiringiyimana, sending a picture of the group and writing back and forth, expressing how
