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My Name Is Sangoel

Author: Williams, Karen Lynn

Follett Number: 00928Y9
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2009
Format: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-5307-3
ISBN-10: 0-8028-5307-2
LCCN: 2008-031735
Dewey: -E-
Classifications: Fiction; Easy

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Subjects:
Communication Fiction
Immigrants Fiction
Names, Personal Fiction
Picture Books for Children
Refugees Fiction
Sudanese Americans Fiction
Sangoel, who is proud of his rich African heritage, moves to America, and when nobody there can pronounce his name correctly, he fears he will lose his identity.

From the publisher:
Sangoel is a refugee. Leaving behind his homeland of Sudan, where his father died in the war, he has little to call his own other than his name, a Dinka name handed down proudly from his father and grandfather before him. When Sangoel and his mother and sister arrive in the United States, everything seems very strange and unlike home. In this busy, noisy place, with its escalators and television sets and traffic and snow, Sangoel quietly endures the fact that no one is able to pronounce his name. Lonely and homesick, he finally comes up with an ingenious solution to this problem, and in the process he at last begins to feel at home. Written by the authors of the acclaimed Four Feet, Two Sandals, this poignant story of identity and belonging will help young readers understand the plight of the millions of children in the world who are refugees.

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