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A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS / Badeeah Hassan Ahmed ; with Susan Elizabeth McClelland.

Summary:

Recounts the author's kidnapping as a teenager by ISIS, describing how she was forced into a brutal human trafficking network and kept as a slave until her profound sense of faith drove her to escape.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781773212340
  • ISBN: 1773212346
  • ISBN: 9781773212357
  • ISBN: 1773212354
  • Physical Description: xii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto ; Berkeley : Annick Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword -- The purpose of life -- Spoils of war -- The stranger -- Invasion -- Sabaya -- Prisoner -- Adrift -- On the other side -- In between heaven and earth -- Awakening -- Immortal -- The dark room -- The American -- A cave in the clouds -- Jinn -- Death -- Houses -- Reunion -- Escape -- Return to Iraq -- We're not afraid of darkness -- Return to love -- Giving -- Freedom -- Epilogue.
Target Audience Note:
HL750L Lexile
Subject: Ahmed, Badeeah Hassan.
Ahmed, Badeeah Hassan > Kidnapping, 2014.
IS (Organization)
Kidnapping victims > Iraq > Biography.
Yezidis > Crimes against > Iraq.
Women > Crimes against > Iraq.
Human trafficking > Iraq.
Women.
Womyn.
Iraq > History > 2003-
Genre: Autobiographies.
Young adult.
Young adult literature.

Available copies

  • 7 of 8 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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