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Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria

Rania Abouzeid

Ages: 12+

Published: 2020

Publisher: Scholastic

ISBN: 978-1-338-55112-9

Keywords: Syria - Civil War, Human Rights, Children in War,

The situation that Syrian girls, one Sunni Muslim and one Alawite, experience during the civil war that began in 2011. Map. Author's note.