WHAT YOU WISH FOR : STORIES AND POEMS FOR DARFUR

WHAT YOU WISH FOR : STORIES AND POEMS FOR DARFUR
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011
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ISBN  0399254544

What Your Wish For: A Book for Darfur is a collection of writing and art from an international
roster of some of the best authors and artists who are currently working.  Authors like Meg
Cabot and Alexander McCall Smith, Francisco Stork, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jeanne DuPrau, Joyce
Carol Oates, Nikki Giovanni, Karen Hesse, Cornelia Funke, Ann M Martin, Meg Cabot, R.L. Stine,
Jane Yolen, Gary Soto, Nate Powell, Cynthia Voigt -- have all donated their work to this
project.  Each piece explores wishes – some are funny, some are creepy, some are inspiring –
but all are linked by the universal power of a wish, the abstract things we wish for: home,
family, safety and love.

The book was created to raise awareness of the plight of the Darfuri refugees forced to live
in camps in eastern Chad.  And funds from sales of the books go toward granting the Darfuri’s
wishes – building libraries in the refugee camps.  Their wish is that children growing up in
refugee camps will become educated about good and evil and their history and their future,
and will therefore be less likely to be recruited as child soldiers.

What You Wish For is a thoughtful book that sheds light on an important international tragedy.
But readers will also become exposed to some very fine writing that will encourage them to
continue to read more of these authors’ works.   (NH Isinglass Teen Award
nominee, 2013)