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 Book Review of Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park A Long Walk To Water is a piece of literature that reflects all the struggles that the people of Sudan face on a daily basis. Summary It has two stories in completely different times running together side by side. Salva is a young boy in south Sudan who is going to school when  re aches his village. He can't return to his family who are still in the village but only run with all the people in his village moving East. They plan to move to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. He makes friends with a boy named Marial who later falls prey to a lion. He meets his Uncle Jewiir among the thousands of people but is disappointed to know his uncle has no clue about his family. In the presence of Uncle Jewiir Salva is treated well but when a group of people in the desert kill his uncle everyone starts thinking of him as someone who will slow them down again. Will they reach Ethiopia? Read the book to find out Salva's fate. Nya, a girl in S...

 Book Review of The Other Side Of Tomorrow By Tina Cho The Other Side of Tomorrow is a story of two children in North Korea under the generalissimo regime of Kim Jong-Un. Their stories run parallel as they face hardships in North Korea but they meet while they have the common goal of escaping the country through China, Laos then Thailand from where they can take refuge and immigrate to other countries. But, the journey is a perilous one. The smallest of mistakes and getting captured can make their situation worse than it already was. Yunho resides with his grandmother in North Korea while Myunghee lives with her Great Aunt. Yunho wants to leave the country and waits keenly for his mom who already crossed the border to call him to join her while Myunghee just wants more freedom than what the regime will give her. With the only aspiration of living their cruel country with hopes of a better life. Myunghee annd Yunho unite to escape North Korea. My Opinion This book was extremely touc...