The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost And A New One Not Yet Found

ISBN-10: 1536233110
ISBN-13: 9781536233117
Author: Nayeri, Dina
Illustrated by: Miralpeix, Anna Bosch (Photographer)
Interest Level: 7-12
Publisher: Candlewick Press

Publication Date: May 2024

Copyright: 2021

Page Count: 64

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Grades 7-12

Reading Level

Guided Reading: X
Lexile: HL660L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.0
Accelerated Reader Points: 0.5

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An unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time-and bravely proceeding anyway-inside the Katsikas refugee camp in Greece. Every war, famine, and flood spits out survivors. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cites an unprecedented 71 million forcibly displaced people on the planet today. In 2018, Dina Nayeri-a former refugee herself and the daughter of a refugee-invited documentary photographer Anna Bosch Miralpeix to accompany her to Katsikas, a refugee camp outside Ioannina, Greece, to record the hopes and struggles of ten of them-siblings and friends from Iran and Afganistan. “I wanted to play with them, to enter their imagined worlds, to see the landscape inside their minds," she says. Ranging in age from five to seventeen, the children live in partitioned shipping-crate homes crowded on a field below a mountain. Robbed of curiosity and purpose, dignity and identity, each battles the dreary monster of a paused life. Ten lyrical passages lead one into the next, punctuated by intimate p
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