  | Flying through water Author: Wolo, Mamle | |
| Price: $22.38 | ||
Summary:
Sena thinks he is helping his poverty-stricken family when a man calling himself Jack of Diamonds promises him a job and a better life, but he ends up in the clutches of human traffickers and must use all his resolve to escape and survive.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 6.10 Points: 9.0 Quiz: 523610 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (03/15/24)
Booklist (04/15/24)
The Hornbook (00/07/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 04/15/2024 Wolo’s (The Kaya Girl, 2022) latest novel is divided into three parts. In the first, readers meet 14-year-old Sena, who lives with his farming family in the village of Tovine in Ghana. The second segment recounts his life as a fisher boy kidnapped by human traffickers, while the third shares his life as a castaway. The pace of part one is, for the most part, leisurely as it examines his ordinary daily life, highlighted by his relationship with his beloved grandfather. When the man dies, Sena’s life is turned upside down, and he agrees to become a fisher boy, bound to a master for four years. But Sena discovers too late how hideous that life on the banks of the vast, remote Lake Volta will be. The unspeakably cruel master is interested in only one thing: the amount of fish Sena and the other trafficked boys can catch. Sena determines to escape, and part three records the results. While it requires a willing suspension of disbelief, Wolo’s novel is agreeable and always engaging. Readers will enjoy it. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
