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Orphaned: One Woman's Mission to Save Africa's AIDS Children
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Based on 752 Ratings and 259 Reviews

Book Description
In a tin-walled compound outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a middle-class woman named Haregewoin Teferra suffers terrible personal losses. In grief, she turns to the church, and is presented with two orphans and asked to house them. Haregewoin agrees. Once she opens her gate, she never manages to close it again. Here is a woman who does not run away from HIV-positive and AIDS-orphaned children, broug... More
Book Information
PublisherBloomsbury USA Children's Books
BindingPaperback (16 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages320
ISBN-100747585423
ISBN-13978-0747585428
Publication Date09/04/2007
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About Melissa Fay Greene (Author) : Melissa Fay Greene is a published author of adult books. Some of the published credits of Melissa Fay Greene include There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children (Unabri... more
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