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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2014 | Grades 5 and Up
Gr 5–8—Documentary filmmaker Gray and writer Scandiffio have collaborated on this account of two brothers who fled from their native Tibet to India. The story begins in the middle of the night, when 10-year-old Tenzin's older brother Pasang returned to his impoverished family home in occupied Tibet, years after escaping his monastery for greater freedom in India. Pasang convinced their mother to allow him to sneak the younger boy into India, a country with better prospects for Tibetans. But their journey was far from ea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
[=With]Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Gray documents a harrowing journey across the Himalayas for two brothers, Pasang (eighteen)...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
