Year Of No Rain by Alice Mead Stephen Majok lives in a village in southern Sudan, with his mother and his older sister, Naomi. Life in the village is hard, and there is little food, so when the UN drops off a large amount of food, it seems like a godsend to Stephen. Unfortunately, everyone in Sudan is hungry, and the adults in the village send the three boys in the village to hide in the forest to avoid being taken as soldiers if the army forces raid the village, which it is. When the boys return to the village, they find the village empty. Many of the villagers are dead. The boys wander off, in search of something, but unsure even of what they are searching. On their travels, they run into many people who fair as badly as they do, and sometimes worse. This is a story of what is now happening in Africa. It is not a happy story.
Thoughtful reading.
