Alice Mead is the author of many notable books about children displaced by modern wars: Girl of Kosovo, Dawn and Dusk, plus award-winner, Junebug. Here she tells the story of Tutsi orphan trapped outside the border of Rwanda in 1993. With Neema's Little Ghost Book, Mead tells the story of a ten year old orphan, separated from her brothers in the Congo/Rwanda border region and her struggles to get home.
Alice Mead is an artist, teacher, and grandmother of three. For forty years she raised her family on the coast of Maine. Since 1994 and a diagnosis of CFIDS and dysautonomia, she published with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with a passion for the millions of modern children caught in decades of warfare, immigration and poverty. Probably her best known book is Junebug about a resilient ten year old growing up in the projects of New Haven, CT. She has recently reissued Giants of the Dawnland, Wabanaki tales for children. In 2015, she left Maine, moved to Maryland to be closer to her family and grandchildren.
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