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Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday

by Natalie C. Anderson

Ages: 12+

Published: 2019

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-399-54761-4

Keywords: Terrorism, Diversity, Somalia, War

In Somalia, when 16-year-old Abdi's brother is kidnapped by the terrorist group Al-Shabaab, Abdi tries to rescue him.