Sunday, January 5, 2014

Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney

Jared Finch, and his younger sister Mopsy, are about to have their world turn upside-down. Their parents, Drew and Kara Finch, have a powerful voice in their community and church. Drew and Kara Finch earn money rather well and live in town in Connecticut. Drew and Kara Finch have agreed to take on a refugee family of four from Darfur in Africa. Jared Finch, a teenager in High School, is now forced to share his room with Mattu Amabo; the Amabo's teenage son. Unlike his Mopsy, who is rather excited about rooming with Alake, the Amabo's teenage daughter, Jared is not thrilled much about sharing a room with Mattu. However, the experience will all be something to adjust with for both the Finches and the Amabos. Yet, there is something different, something unusual with the Amabo family; for one thing, they all stray away from Alake, the only one that tries to talk to Alake being Mopsy. The refugee family has to learn how to be Americans and has to stay with the Finches for 3 months; yet as they get settled in more comfortably to their new life and home, a fifth refugee is looking for this family of four. The longer that this family of four stays with the Finches, the more the Finches are in danger, and the more Jared Finch is becoming suspicious of them, and for good reason. Soon, Jared Finch, will unravel secrets of the Amabo family that could change everything and it is up to him of what to with the secrets that the Amabo family are holding onto.

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