Flying Through Water
On sale
4th December 2025
Price: £7.99
Genre
An NPR Best Book of the Year
“A must-read!”-Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee
For fans of A Long Walk to Water and Hatchet, this gripping journey from poverty to empowerment transports readers to modern-day Ghana, into the throes of an extraordinary survival story.
Sena treasures his life in rural Ghana-playing soccer, working the family farm, striving to do his best at school-but he is increasingly aware of his family’s precarious security in the face of poverty. When an alluring gentleman comes to town to befriend local teenagers, offering promises of a better future, it only takes one more unsettling turn of events to send Sena into the clutches of human traffickers. Sena’s ordeal, escape, and remarkable survival makes for a page-turning adventure of self-discovery and empowerment.
★ “A powerful look at…the will to survive.”―Kirkus, starred review
★ “Readers will devour Sena’s story.”-School Library Journal, starred review
“A must-read!”-Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee
For fans of A Long Walk to Water and Hatchet, this gripping journey from poverty to empowerment transports readers to modern-day Ghana, into the throes of an extraordinary survival story.
Sena treasures his life in rural Ghana-playing soccer, working the family farm, striving to do his best at school-but he is increasingly aware of his family’s precarious security in the face of poverty. When an alluring gentleman comes to town to befriend local teenagers, offering promises of a better future, it only takes one more unsettling turn of events to send Sena into the clutches of human traffickers. Sena’s ordeal, escape, and remarkable survival makes for a page-turning adventure of self-discovery and empowerment.
★ “A powerful look at…the will to survive.”―Kirkus, starred review
★ “Readers will devour Sena’s story.”-School Library Journal, starred review
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