Under the Sun

by Dorros, Arthur

• ISBN13: 9780810949331
• ISBN10: 0810949334
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

The gripping story of a boy's survival during a time of war Best-selling and award-winning picture-book writer Arthur Dorros has written his first novel, a thrilling "My Side of the Mountaintype survival story. Separated from his parents by the Balkan war, 13-year-old Ehmet must use all his skills to survive a four-hundered-mile journey across wilderness and war-torn landscape to find a place he's only heard rumors of, a village of children living cooperatively and peacefully away from the violence that is tearing their country apart. He makes shelters, tracks animals, fishes with a thorn, whittles a toothbrush, and collects wild mushrooms when there's no other food. "Under the Sun is an inspiring journey by a master storyteller, created through extensive research and based on actual places.

Table of Contents

The Giant	1	(9)
The Country	10	(7)
Game	17	(9)
Across the Roof	26	(3)
Meeting Place	29	(4)
Away	33	(10)
The Awakening	43	(3)
Bobbing and Weaving	46	(6)
The Desert	52	(2)
Ruins	54	(7)
Who?	61	(5)
Not Alone	66	(5)
Burning	71	(6)
Mines	77	(7)
The Night	84	(3)
Where There's Smoke	87	(4)
Better Not	91	(4)
Family	95	(7)
The Rest	102	(2)
Running on Empty	104	(6)
The Border	110	(8)
Flying	118	(4)
Jakob and Danica	122	(6)
Wake Me Up Oily	128	(5)
On the Bus	133	(5)
Camp	138	(9)
Waiting	147	(7)
Friends	154	(6)
The Fence	160	(4)
Break	164	(4)
Dark	168	(5)
Light	173	(3)
Old Only	176	(4)
House and Home	180	(4)
Dinner	184	(7)
Finders Keepers	191	(6)
Change	197	(3)
The Village	200	(5)
Author's Note	205	(4)
Acknowledgments	209