Flying Through Water [Hardcover]

An NPR Best Book of the Year

"A must-read!"—Alan Gratz,New York Timesbestselling author ofRefugee

For fans of A Long Walk to Water and Hatchet, this boy’s gripping journey from poverty to empowerment transports readers to modern-day Ghana, into the throes of an extraordinary survival story.
 
Sena treasures his life in rural Ghana—playing soccer, working the family farm, striving to do his best at school—but he is increasingly aware of his family's precarious security in the face of poverty. When an alluring gentleman comes to town to befriend local teenagers, offering promises of a better future, it only takes one more unsettling turn of events to send Sena into the clutches of human traffickers. Sena's ordeal, escape, and remarkable survival makes for a page-turning adventure of self-discovery and empowerment.

★“A powerful look at...the will to survive.”―Kirkus, starred review
★ “Readers will devour Sena’s story.”—School Library Journal, starred reviewMAMLE WOLO is the award-winning author ofThe Kaya Girl.She studied at the University of Cambridge and the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom and is an Honorary Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa. She writes fiction, poetry, and screenplays and lives with her family in Accra, Ghana.
 Praise forFlying Through Water:
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Children’s Africana Book Awards Honor Book* “A powerful look at human suffering and the will to survive.”
 Kirkus, starred review* “Readers will devour Sena’s story.”
 School Library Journal, starred review“Engaging.”Booklist