Beautiful, painful, captivating, moving - the stories of these young women will touch your heart and teach you so many things about the world. Each woman's story, although full of loss, trauma, and pain, is so much more. This is a must read for all junior high and high school students. The vocabulary and language are very simple and friendly to students on lower reading levels.

Librarians, please put this in your libraries. Teachers, please booktalk this book to your students. Books like this one and stories like these are how we come to see our fellow humans as brothers and sisters, and how we come to respect and serve one another.