Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday

Let's Go Swimming on DoomsdayForced to become a child soldier, a sixteen year old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption by the bestselling author of City of Saints & Thieves. Now in paperback. When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier in the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. To save the lives of those he loves and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy

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and the detail in his character work makes the main characters in both time periods easy to root for

original research

Francisco Menendez escaped from a plantation in the colony of South Carolina and

Mama is the most important person in the world

"Peetes writes with compassion and understanding

constructed

and married

" but they are so much more than that

Ella’s journey—from the gritty streets of Chicago to the classrooms where she found her calling to an opportunity to raise her voice for freedom alongside Martin Luther King

and sabotage their way to the top