Yusra Swims
Yusra Mardini loves to swim. As a girl in Damascus, she dreams about swimming for her country in the Olympics. But then war intervenes. Julie Abery’s spare, rhyming verse relates the story of Yusra’s journey from her beloved home in Syria to a sinking boat on the Aegean to Germany, where Yusra finally swims again and realizes her dream.
- Author
- Julie Abery
- Illustrator
- Sally Deng
- Publisher
- Creative Editions
- Date Published
- 02/25/2020
- Total Pages
- 32
- Type
- Picture Book
- ISBN-13
- 978-1568463292
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- N/A
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Yusra Mardini loves to swim. As a girl in Damascus, she dreams about swimming for her country in the Olympics. But then war intervenes. Julie Abery’s spare, rhyming verse relates the story of Yusra’s journey from her beloved home in Syria to a sinking boat on the Aegean to Germany, where Yusra finally swims again and realizes her dream.