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How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana; with Abigail Pesta (click the title to sample the book)

Sandra Uwiringiyimana was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at night — wielding weapons, torches, machetes. She watched as her mother and six-year-old sister were gunned down in a refugee camp, far from their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels were killing people who weren’t from the same community, the same tribe. In other words, they were killing people simply for looking different. “Goodbye, life,” she said to the man ready to shoot her. Remarkably, the rebel didn’t pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped into the night. Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money, they struggled to stay alive. Eventually, through a United Nations refugee program, they moved to America, only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean, but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York. In this memoir, Sandra tells the story of her survival, of finding her place in a new country, and of her hope for the future.

More opportunities to read eBooks!

This summer, the OverDrive Summer Read (http://resources.overdrive.com/summer-read) program will offer a collection of Juvenile and Young Adult titles that will be prominently displayed in our digital collection (https://kenaihsak.libraryreserve.com/) for quick and easy unlimited access from June 7 – August 7, 2017.
The titles below will be available during those 2 months!
Young Adult Collection:
25005560 18079917 18242939 28501714 13628605 29275021
Check out their website for Children’s books as well.

Featured book, ebook, and audiobook of the week

This week they are the same book! You can read the actual book, read it online through Overdrive, or listen to the audiobook through Overdrive. Any way you experience it, the story will take you into the world of Steam Punk.
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (click on the title to preview the book)

It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time, welcome to finishing school. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick is a great trial to her poor mother-her atrocious curtsy is an embarrassment to the pfamily name. So Mrs. Temminnick enrolls her daughter in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s FinishingAcademy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine’s, young ladies certainly learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage-in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year’s education. Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the same saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger’s legions of fans have come to adore.

Featured Audiobook of the Week

The BFG by Roald Dahl (Click on title to preview the book)
Front Cover
Captured by a giant!The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!