2009 Lost Boys of Sudan Reunion Project Read-a-Thon Booklist 100

							





                                                                                                                          



    2009 “Lost Boys” of Sudan Reunion Project: Read-a-Thon Booklist: 100 Books


                        Please put a check next to each book you read
Sudan
        African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan by Edward Hoagland
        Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel by Alek Wek
        Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by Mary Williams
        Courageous Journey: Walking the Lost Boys path from the Sudan to America by
        Barbara Youree
        Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marval with Aisha Bain and Adam
        Shapiro
        Emma’s War by Deborah Scroggins
        Escape from Slavery: The True story of My Ten years in Captivity and My
        Journey to freedom in America by Francis Bok and Edward Tidnen
        Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa by Nicholas Coghlan
        Foresaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced by Francis Mading
        Deng
        From Africa to America: The Journey of a Lost Boy of Sudan by Joseph Akol
        Makeer
        The Journey of the Lost Boys by Joan Hecht
        The Long Way Home: Contemplations of Sudanese Refugees in Uganda by
        Christina Buetzer
        Lost Boys No More by Abraham Nhial and DiAnn Mills
         The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience by Mark
        Bixler
        Not Just Child’s Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of the Sudan by
        Felicia R. McMahon
         Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota by Nancy Foner
         Out of Exile: The Abducted and Displaced People of the Sudan by Craig Walzer
        They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
        by
        Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng, and Judy Bernstein
        A Scorching Hot Time in Sudan: A Relief Workers Story from Inside an African
        Refugee Camp by Richard Leutizinger
        Slave by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis





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       Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir
       The Translator: A Tribeman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
       Voices of Sudan by David Johnson
       Why Haven’t You Left?: Letters from the Sudan by Marc Nikkel

    African Folktales, Poems & Plays
        Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
        The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folk Tales by Bernard Binlin Dadie
        Clever Sheikh of Butana: Sudanese Folk Tales by Ali Lufti
        The Dinka and Their Songs by Francis Mading Deng
        Dinka Folktales by Francis Mading Deng
        Dinka of the Sudan by Francis Mading Deng
        East African Folktales: the Voice of Mukamba by Vincent Muli Wa Kituku
        Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-1994 by Derick Burleson
        Kalakuta Republic: A Book of Poetry by Christopher Abani
        Laughing Africa by Therese Svoboda
        No Turning Back: Poems of Freedom 1990-1993 by Dibussi Tande
        Plays from African Folktales by Carol Korty
        The Winking Faces of the Sudan by Azaria Gillo Tibi

    One Book, One Philadelphia
      The Price of a Child by Lorene Cary: 2003
       The Color of Water by James McBride: 2004
       The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien: 2005
      Ben Franklin 300: 2006
       Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire: 2007
       What is the What by David Eggers: 2008
       The Soloist by Steve Lopez: 2009

    Children in Armed Conflict
       A long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
       Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America by David Ngaruri
       Kenney
       Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
       Courage of Children: My Life with the World’s Poorest Kids by Peter Daglish

       Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
       The Lost Army of Cambyses by Paul Sussman
       No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel
       Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to
       Harvard by Mawi Asgedom





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University
Writing
Program,
Pennoni
Honors
College,
5th
floor
MacAlister
Hall,
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and
Chestnut
Streets,

                                   Philadelphia
PA
19104
215‐895‐6485/215‐895‐1799

    Travel Adventure
       African Diary by Bill Bryson
       The Best American Travel Writing edited by Susan Orlean and Jason Wilson
       Eat pray love by Elizabeth Gilbert
       Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
       Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parado
       On the Road by Jack Kerouac
       Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
       The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
       West with the Night by Beryl Markham

    African-American Experience
        Beloved by Toni Morrison
        Black Boy by Richard Wright
         The Color Purple by Alice Walker
        Go Tell It To the Mountain by James Baldwin
        I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
        Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
        Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
        Native Son by Richard Wright
        Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
        Roots by Alex Haley
        A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller
        Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
        Souls of Black Folk by WEB DuBois
        Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston

    Tolerance
        1984 by George Orwell
       Animal Farm by George Orwell
        Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
        The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
        One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
       The Pearl by John Steinback
       Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
       To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
       Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbat

    Other Genocides
       Africa: The Holocausts of Rwanda and Sudan by Lucian Niemeyer
       An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina





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University
Writing
Program,
Pennoni
Honors
College,
5th
floor
MacAlister
Hall,
32
and
Chestnut
Streets,

                                   Philadelphia
PA
19104
215‐895‐6485/215‐895‐1799

        The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
        Weisel
         Day by Elie Weisel
        The Devils’ Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
        Genocide in Rwanda: A Collective Memory by John A. Berry
         I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-
        Jackson
        Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance by Jack and
        Rochelle Sutin
        Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
         Mause: A Survivor’s Tale Volume 2: And Here My Troubles Began by Art
        Spiegelman
        Night by Elie Weisel
        Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
        The Rescue of Memory by Cheryl Sucher
        Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust by Rutka Laskier
        Through the Glass Window by Nelly Toll
    




























































        Drexel
University
Writing
Program,
Pennoni
Honors
College,
5th
floor
MacAlister
Hall,
32
and
Chestnut
Streets,

                                    Philadelphia
PA
19104
215‐895‐6485/215‐895‐1799