{"id":4694,"date":"2018-08-09T11:20:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4694"},"modified":"2018-08-09T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:20:04","slug":"the-unwanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4694","title":{"rendered":"The Unwanted<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“In 2016, the European Union and Turkey decide refugees sneaking into Greece by boat from Turkey will be returned to Turkey. The Europeans promise to resettle <\/em>officially registered Syrians from Turkish camps, a tiny fraction of all the refugees in Turkey.”<\/em><\/center>
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\nAs a follow-up to my Kirkus<\/em> Q&A<\/strong><\/a> last week with Don Brown<\/a><\/strong>, I’ve some art today from The Unwanted: Stories of Syrian Refugees<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2018). <\/p>\n

Until tomorrow. …<\/p>\n


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“Ignoring the hardships, Bushra, a young mother,
crosses the Lebanese border in the middle of the night with her two small children.”<\/em><\/center>
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“But Europe’s \u2014 and the world’s \u2014 ‘love’ buckles beneath the huge exodus.
Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon weary of the drain of food, electricity, and water by the refugees. They complain Syrians steal jobs. Most of the patients in Turkish hospitals are Syrians. Jordan’s and Lebanon’s economies stumble at the cost of taking in so many new residents. Lebanese curse the Syrians.”<\/em><\/center>
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“An eighteen-year-old girl finds a smuggler to lead her and her younger brother
and sister out of Syria to Turkey.”<\/em><\/center>
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THE UNWANTED: STORIES OF THE SYRIAN REFUGEES. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Don Brown. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, and Don Brown.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In 2016, the European Union and Turkey decide refugees sneaking into Greece by boat from Turkey will be returned to Turkey. The Europeans promise to resettle officially registered Syrians from Turkish camps, a tiny fraction of all the refugees in Turkey.”   As a follow-up to my Kirkus Q&A last week with Don Brown, I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}