Nadia's family lives in Aleppo. They have survived during the fighting but now they feel that it is time to leave and get to Turkey. Nadia has barely left the house since she was injured by shrapnel a year earlier. As they prepare to leave Nadia hesitates and in doing so ends up too close to their house when a bomb hits. She survives but is knocked unconscious and is hidden under debris. Her family thinks she is dead and they leave, but leave a message for her at a spot they planned to meet at just in case. Nadia finds her way there, gets the message, and with the help of an old man and some boys she finds along the way makes her way out of Aleppo.
This is a good story in that it shows readers what the struggle in Syria has been about and what the experience would have been for a child trying to get it. The book does this in a way that a middle school reader can relate to without getting too graphic.
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