Escape from Aleppo

Nadia is a typical pre-teen—enjoying spending time with her friends and family, delighted about being selected to appear in a tv commercial, celebrating her twelfth birthday—and then she is not. Suddenly, a man appears on tv and sets himself on fire, and Syria is at war, and Nadia's world becomes a world of bombings and soldiers and fear. Her family decides they must escape to a safer place, and Nadia unexpectedly gets separated from them and must make her own way out of the turbulent city, Aleppo, she has called home all her life.

This is an important story for children, both those who have lived through these horrors and those who have only heard of such events through the media.