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On the rain-swollen banks of the River Etsi in South Carolina, Ophelia Blue Rivers -- six years old in 1992 -- catches frogs and stretches to reach the swaying sunflowers. She’s an orphan raised in a rustic cabin by her Grandma Blue, a descendent...

Danny-- formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam-- is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new...

Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket--if not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly...

Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket-- if not as good as his older brother Radha. But there are many other things about himself and the world that he doesn't know. Sometimes it even seems as...

Dhananjaya "Danny" Rajaratnam is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for...