Date: Tuesday July 29, 5:30-6:30 PM. Registration required.
Location: 2nd Floor Board Room
Who can sign up? Teens entering grades 7 – 12.
How does this program and sign up work:
Sign up and pick up your copy of the book from the 2nd Floor Kid’s Desk: Mon.-Thurs. 10-8:30 PM, Fri. 10-5pm, *Sat. hours are 10-1pm in July and August*
Sign up, read the book, and show up to the in person discussion and you get to keep the book!
To be fair, if you don’t show up, you have to return the book.
Due to high demand for this title, we ask that you pickup your book within 5 days of registering, or your book to keep might go to another teen.
What is this book about?
Looking for freedom and a place to belong, one brave girl sets out on a dangerous journey across continents. From India to Mexico to the United States, The Freedom Seeker is a powerful story about immigration, survival, and finding kindness in unexpected places.
Twelve-year-old Simi Singh’s life in Northern India is filled with love, family traditions, and ordinary worries about hockey competitions, school exams, and avoiding the snide remarks of her class nemesis. But when a single rock carrying a note crash through their window during their Id celebration, Simi’s life will shatter.
Her Sikh father and Muslim mother’s interfaith marriage is becoming a target of violent vigilantes. Faced with rising threats, they must make an impossible choice: stay and risk their lives, or flee their homeland. Simi’s father is the first of them to make the journey to the U.S., but when their petition to be reunited in America is denied, Simi and her mother are left with no choice but to attempt a perilous crossing through the Arizona desert with the help of a smuggler.
Throughout her nail-biting journey towards safety and belonging, Simi will face unthinkable danger– and when Simi and her mother are separated during the crossing, each led to believe the other is dead, she refuses to accept this fate. Alone in an unfamiliar and unforgiving land, she must summon all her courage and resourcefulness to survive, find her mother, and reunite her shattered family.
Written by award-winning activist and filmmaker, this book is full of courage, hope, and the strength of family love.