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Author Mason, Prue, author

Title Zafir / Prue Mason
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2015
Crows Nest NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2015
©2015

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Description 203 pages : 1 map ; 20 cm
Series Through my eyes / series editor Lyn White
Through my eyes.
Summary Zafir has a comfortable life in Homs, Syria, until his father, a doctor, is arrested for helping a protester who was campaigning for revolution. While his mother heads to Damascus to try to find out where his father is being held, Zafir stays with his grandmother - until her house is bombed. With his father in prison, his mother absent, his grandmother ill and not a friend left in the city, Zafir must stay with his Uncle Ghazi. But that too becomes dangerous as the city becomes more and more besieged. Will Zafir survive long enough to be reunited with his parents?
Analysis Australian
Notes Includes glossary
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202)
Audience For ages: 11-14
Notes Shortlisted, Fiction for Years 7-9, YABBA Awards, 2016
Subject Australian fiction -- 21st century.
Authors, Australian -- Australia -- Queensland.
Families -- Young adult fiction
Children's stories.
Political prisoners -- Juvenile fiction.
Political prisoners -- Young adult fiction
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Revolutions -- Juvenile fiction.
Revolutions -- Young adult fiction
Revolutions -- Syria -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Political prisoners -- Fiction.
Revolutions -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012001320 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012001320 -- Young adult fiction
Syria -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006216 -- 21st century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Syria -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006216 -- 21st century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478 -- Young adult fiction
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012001320 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Novels.
Author White, Lyn, editor
ISBN 9781743312544
Other Titles Zafir : through my eyes