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The Stray and the Strangers

✍ Scribed by Heighton, Steven;Iwai, Melissa


Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd; Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Year
2020
Tongue
en-CA
Weight
570 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Greece., Lesbos (Greece : Municipality
ISBN
1773063839

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


The fishermen on Lesvos call her Kanella because of her cinnamon color. She's a scrawny, nervous stray -- easily intimidated by the harbor cats and the other dogs that compete for handouts on the pier.
One spring day a dinghy filled with weary, desperate strangers comes to shore. Other boats follow, laden with refugees who are homeless and hungry. Kanella knows what that is like, and she follows them as they are taken to a makeshift refugee camp in the parking lot of an abandoned nightclub. There she comes to trust a bearded man -- an aid worker. She gradually settles into a contented routine, given shelter like the other refugees who line up for food and sleep on the ground for a few nights before being taken to a much bigger, permanent camp that the aid workers call Mordor.
Kanella grows healthy and confident. She has a job now -- to keep watch over the people in her camp.
One day, a little boy arrives and does not leave like the others. He seems...

✦ Subjects


Greece


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