Companion+Books

= Companion Books: =

Random House, 2009. The author relates his experiences speaking and traveling with an African refugee named Deo, who escaped genocide and earned his doctorate degree in medicine from Columbia Universtity, to Burundi, where Deo built a hospital and reflected on the many deaths in the region. || Crown Publishers, 2004. Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker chronicles the experiences he and his wife had while volunteering at an orphanage in Zimbabwe, and describes the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children. || Carolrhoda, 2006 Jeanne, the only member of her family not murdered in the Rwandan genocide, struggles to start a new life without her family while coping with the violent memories that haunt her. || Harper Teen, 2008. Chandra Kabelo, a teenaged African girl, must save her younger siblings after they are kidnapped and forced to serve as child soldiers in General Mandiki's rebel army. || Tells the true story of three-old Mawi's flee from the civil war in Ethiopia and his later move to Chicago where he earns a full scholarship to Harvard. || National Geographic, 2008. National Geographic photographer Robert B. Haas shares his experience in Africa and his wildlife photographs and provides information about the animals of the continent. || Harper Collins, 1997 ||  || Millbrook Press, 2000 || Franklin Watts, 2002 || __Watching Lions in Africa__ by Louis and Richard Spilsbury __African Animals ABC: An Alphabet Safari__ by Sarah L. Schuette Into Wild Africa by Elaine Pascoe ||
 * **Adult Books** ||
 * //** NEW RELEASE **//: __Strength in What Remains__ by Tracy Kidder
 * __Love in the Driest of Seasons: A Family Memoir__ by Neely Tucker
 * __Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You__ by Hanna Jansen
 * **Young Adult Books** ||
 * __Chanda's Wars__ by Allan Stratton
 * __Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard__ by Mawi Asgedom
 * **Children's Books** ||
 * __Animal Critters__; photography and text by Robert B. Haas
 * __African Dream__ by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Carole Byard
 * __Africa is Not a Country__ by Margy Burns Knight and Mark Melnicove, illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien
 * __Look What Came from Africa__ by Miles Harvey
 * **Children Books: African Animal**s ||
 * __African Animals__ by John Wallace Purcell