Orange for the Sunsets

Tina Athaide

eBook - 2019

A friendship between an African boy and an Indian girl is tested in Idi Amin's Uganda: "Fascinating and beautiful . . . hard to put down and hard to forget." —Kashmira Sheth, author of Boys Without NamesA Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of 2019 Selection and a Canadian Children's Book Center Best Books for Kids & Teens Pick Asha and her best friend, Yesofu, never cared about the differences between them: Indian. African. Girl. Boy. Short. Tall. But when the president, Idi Amin, announces that Indians have ninety days to leave the country, suddenly those differences are the only things that people in Entebbe can see—not the shared after-school samosas or Asha cheering for Yesofu at every cricket game....Wanting her life to stay the same, Asha clings to her world tighter than ever before. But Yesofu is torn, pulled between his friends, his family, and a promise of a better future. Now as neighbors leave and soldiers line the... more