Amina

By J. L. Powers

Subjects: Child and youth fiction, Children, Fiction, Social conditions, Civil war

Description: Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political.