The Door of No Return

The Door of No ReturnBy: Kwame Alexander Series: Door of No Return The #1 New York Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing 'At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting' Lupita Nyong'o Dreams are todays answers for tomorrows questions. Eleven year old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he

By: Kwame Alexander   | Series: Door of No Return 

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The #1 New York Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing 'At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting' Lupita Nyong'o Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable – a sudden death – occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Yet Kofi’s dreams may be the key to his freedom…