Second Story Press: Alice Walsh

Alice Walsh: By Alice Walsh, Second Story Press, 182 pages, ages 9 to 14, $11.95, according to The Chronicle Herald. Its been a terrible lifes journey already for the 14-year-old Afghan girl and her family. They fled their home in Kabul after her father was arrested by the Taliban, one brother was killed and another fled to avoid being forced into the army. Their lives had also changed from one of comfort to one of subsistence and constant fear and A Long Way from Home Rabia is indeed a long way from home when the plane thats carrying her, her mom and younger brother to their new life in California is diverted to Gander, Nfld., on Sept. 11, 2001. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.