The Milk of Birds

By Sylvia Whitman

A fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee and an American teenager become pen pals for a year. Although their circumstances are vastly different, they come to understand that “when a tree leans, it will rest on its sister.”

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Publishing company: Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Date published: 2013

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