My Name Is Sangoel
Sangoel is a refugee. Leaving behind his homeland of Sudan, where his father died in the war, he has little to call his own other than his name, a Dinka name handed down proudly from his father and grandfather before him. When Sangoel and his mother and sister arrive in the United States,...
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Sangoel is a refugee. Leaving behind his homeland of Sudan, where his father died in the war, he has little to call his own other than his name, a Dinka name handed down proudly from his father and grandfather before him. When Sangoel and his mother and sister arrive in the United States, everything seems very strange and unlike home. In this busy, noisy place, with its escalators and television sets and traffic and snow, Sangoel quietly endures the fact that no one can pronounce his name. Lonely and homesick, he finally comes up with an ingenious solution to this problem, and in the process he at last begins to feel at home.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780802853073 (0802853072)
Publish date: June 1st 2009
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 36
Edition language: English
8/10/2011 ** The very first read-aloud for the new school year. Perhaps a little intense, with the refugee resettlement, but went over well. My 4th graders were really interested in ways to represent their own names in a rebus form.8/2010 I read this aloud to my 4th grade class to stimulate a dis...
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