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Why No Goodbye?

by Pamela L. Laskin

Ages: 14+

Published: 2019

Publisher: Leapfrog Press

ISBN: 978-1-948585-06-4

Keywords: Illiteracy, Love, Adolescence

When his mother escapes Myanmar with his siblings a boy rages over his abandonment. How do the Rohingya survive the brutality in their world? Told in free verse.