Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
by Asgedom, Mawi
Biographies/AutobiographiesBlack PeopleNCSS/CBC Notable Social StudiesIRA Teachers Choices/ILA Teachers Choice
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AR Book Level
5.9
AR Points
4
Word Count
28,127
Interest Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
133980 EN
About this book
This autobiography tells how at the age of three, Mawi Asgedom fled civil war in Ethiopia by walking with his mother, brother, and baby sister to a Sudanese refugee camp and later moving to Chicago and earning a full scholarship to Harvard.