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LIGHT YEARS Tammar Stein Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | January 2005 | $15.95 | 0-375-83023-5 | Ages 14 up Hardcover Library Binding | Knopf Books for Young Readers | January 2005 | $17.99 | 0-375-93023-X | Ages 14 up

Imagine living in a country that was in constant upheaval by war. Suicide bombers and death becoming a way of life. What would you do? How would you survive? Living in war torn Israel, surrounded by violence and death becomes too much for Maya, a soldier in the Israeli army. After her boyfriend is killed in a suicide bombing for which she is inadvertently responsible, she makes the only decision she can and flees Israel. Guilt ridden and grief stricken, Maya begins her studies at the University of Virginia and attempts to reconcile her Israeli past with her American future.

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Prepared by Susan Geye, Library Media Specialist, Crowley Ninth Grade Campus, Crowley, TX

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