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One Shadow on the Wall

by Leah Henderson

Ages: 12+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/ Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 978-1-4814-6295-2

Keywords: Bullying, Orphans, Diversity, Senegal

Mor, an 11-year-old boy in a Senegalese village, must care for his younger sisters when both parents die, struggling with a local gang and daily hardships.