Danson Mutinda

It's just a normal day in Daniel's small town until reports go out about an accident at the shipping canal. Thirteen-year-old Daniel and his friend Noah race to the banks and see that two container ships have collided and are blocking the canal. Daniel watches as first responders pull the crew from the ships, and soon they discover more people on board: refugees trafficked in a shipping container. While the refugees are taken to hospital, where Daniel's mom is the head nurse, an investigation is launched, led in part by Daniel's dad, a police detective. Daniel is visiting his mom at the hospital when he meets Bol, a refugee his age from South Sudan. When Bol is too scared to be given an IV he desperately needs, Daniel offers up his arm for an IV with saline solution, and shows Bol it won't hurt. The two boys form a friendship playing video games together and communicating by learning new words in each other's language. But not everyone is so welcoming. Outside the hospital, protesters gather, chanting "Go home " Still, Daniel sees others ready and willing to help. Can the community rally and prove that love is stronger than hate? Praise for Danson Mutinda and Eric Walters: ★ "This simple story of discovery, sport, and friendship is filled with likeable characters and innocently joyful moments...Delightful."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review for Hockey Night in Kenya

Les orphelins k nyans Kitoo et Nigosi occupent leurs journ es tudier, jouer au soccer, participer aux t ches de l'orphelinat et lire les livres de la s lection bien limit e de leur biblioth que. Quand la biblioth caire offre Kitoo un exemplaire de Les sports dans le monde, le gar on est fascin par une image de l' quipe canadienne masculine de hockey sur glace. Par un heureux hasard, Kitoo trouve une paire de vieux patins roues align es tout ab m s. Il apprend par lui-m me patiner, et r ve de jouer un jour au hockey comme les hommes dans son livre. Mais il est impossible de jouer au hockey sur glace au Kenya, n'est-ce pas ?

★ "This simple story of discovery, sport, and friendship is filled with likable characters and innocently joyful moments...Delightful."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Kenyan orphans, Kitoo and Nigosi, spend their days studying, playing soccer, helping their elders with chores around the orphanage and reading from the limited selection of books in their library. When the librarian gives Kitoo a copy of Sports Around the World he becomes fascinated by an image of the Canadian national men's ice hockey team. Then one day the fates align and Kitoo finds a pair of beat-up old roller blades. He teaches himself to skate and dreams of one day playing hockey like the men in his book. But you can't play ice hockey in Kenya, can you? The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.