He was floating with his head down, blood streaming from a bullet hole in the back of his neck. - Linda Sue Park

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting.

How could memories feel so close and so far away at the same time?

There was a big lake three days’ walk from Nya’s village. Every year when the rains stopped and the pond near the village dried up, Nya’s family moved from their home to a camp near the big lake. Nya’s family did not live by the lake all year round because of the fighting. Her tribe, the Nuer, often fought with the rival Dinka tribe over the land surrounding the lake. Men and boys were hurt and even killed when the two groups clashed. So Nya and the rest of her village lived at the lake only during the five months of the dry season, when both tribes were so busy struggling for survival that the fighting occurred far less often.