Orange for the sunsets

Resource Information

The work Orange for the sunsets represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Orange for the sunsets

Statement of responsibility

Tina Athaide

Creator

• trueAthaide, Tina

Author

• trueAthaide, Tina

Subject

• Social classes -- Fiction
• trueFriendship
• Friendship -- Fiction
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueInterracial friendship
• JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Africa
• JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Africa
• JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship
• trueMultiple perspectives
• truePolitical persecution
• truePolitical violence
• trueRefugees
• trueSocial classes
• Social classes -- Juvenile fiction
• Uganda -- History -- 1970-1979 -- Juvenile fiction
• trueUganda -- History -- 1971-1979
• Uganda -- History -- 1971-1979 -- Fiction
• true1970s -- 1970 -- 1979
• trueAfricans
• trueAmin, Idi, 1925-2003
• Amin, Idi, 1925-2003 -- Fiction
• Amin, Idi, 1925-2003 -- Juvenile fiction
• trueBest friends
• trueColonialism
• trueDictators
• trueEast Indians
• East Indians -- Uganda -- Fiction
• East Indians -- Uganda -- Juvenile fiction
• trueElectronic books
• Ethnic relations -- Fiction
• Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- Uganda -- Juvenile fiction
• Family life -- Uganda -- Fiction
• Forced migration -- Uganda -- Fiction
• Forced migration -- Uganda -- Juvenile fiction
• trueForced relocations

Genre

• trueMultiple perspectives
• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972

Theme

• trueBeing a friend
• trueFacing racism

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented
• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueMoving
• trueSad
• trueSerious

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed
• trueThoughtful

Character

• trueCulturally diverse

Award

Notable Books for a Global Society, 2020.

Cataloging source

MLSOD

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.1.A887

LC item number

Or 2019

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

• 600
• 600

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 7

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

pre adolescent