GOLDEN BOY
Marginalized due to his albinism, thirteen-year-old Habo discovers it’s more dangerous to be seen as priceless than worthless when his family moves to Mwanza, Tanzania, and he must flee for his life from people who think his body parts are magical. 

Though GOLDEN BOY is a work of fiction, it’s a compilation of the stories of real people, and it brings to light a modern human rights tragedy that is largely unknown. In Patricia McCormick’s SOLD, a similarly dehumanizing tragedy is brought to light and made hauntingly immediate through the eyes of Lakshmi.

Like Auggie in R.J. Palacio’s WONDER, Habo was born looking different from everyone in his family, everyone in his school, everyone in his village. His older sister, Asu, tries to protect him but, like WONDER’s Via, she can’t keep the world from hurting her brother.

Like Virginia in QUEEN OF WATER by Laura Resau &…