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His late father’s voice lends advice,\nHis late mother’s spirit appears in silence.
\nCan he honor his promise to keep the family together?<\/p>\n
His late father’s voice lends advice,
\nHis late mother’s spirit appears in silence.
\nCan he honor his promise to keep the family together?<\/p>\n
No social safety nets in Mor’s Senegal village, just fishing nets, small boats, and the gang of bullies who ran away from home and threaten to steal any food he is given or money the 11-year-old can earn for his sisters’ schooling<\/a>.<\/p>\n To meet Mor and his sisters just after their father’s burial, read chapter 1 on the publisher’s website<\/a> free.<\/p>\n Look for this as 2017 hardcover or June 2018 paperback at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n When resources are scarce, how can you be resourceful? Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0One Shadow on the Wall \/ Leah Henderson. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017 hardcover, 2018 paperback. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: Guided by his parents’ spirits, eleven-year-old Mor strives to keep his family together, braving bullies, the sea’s perils, and well-meaning neighbors in their Senegalese fishing village – will it be enough?<\/p>\n So little food left when they are orphaned – how to feed his sisters? When his former best friend tells Mor that joining the gang is the only way to keep his sisters safe, he must make a hard choice and live with its consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" His late father’s voice lends advice, His late mother’s spirit appears in silence. Can he honor his promise to keep the family together? No social safety nets in Mor’s Senegal village, just fishing nets, small boats, and the gang of bullies who ran away from home and threaten to steal any food he is given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[90,117,7,4,75,197,20,5,37,16,18,40,44,43,49,184,15,21,323,57,35,33,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-9847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-africa","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-bullying","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-senegal","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/one-shadow-on-the-wall.jpg?fit=1399%2C2171&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9856,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions\/9856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n**kmm<\/p>\n
\nMen also seek work – who will hire a young boy?
\nHis brilliant sister’s school fees are due – can he stop the bully gang from stealing what he can earn?<\/p>\n