Emma is five years old when her mother is murdered in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. She manages to escape and is taken in by an old woman, who shelters and cares for her. Ten years later, Emma continues to have nightmares about this terrible time that resulted in nearly a million deaths in Rwanda. Can she find peace and healing? Will she ever be able to forget the things that she's seen? Read this sobering book to find out what life in Rwanda would have been like for a child survivor. The author based her story on accounts of young Rwandan genocide survivors.
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