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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nIf you liked New Kid<\/a><\/em> (by Jerry Craft), then I think you\u2019ll also enjoy When Stars Are Scattered<\/a><\/em>. It\u2019s a possible cure for entitlement.<\/p>\n The story centres around two orphaned Somali brothers living in a large refugee \u2018camp\u2019 in Kenya. The older one, Omar does everything he can to keep his younger, disabled brother, Hassan safe and fed. At the start of the book Omar is about 11, he doesn\u2019t remember much about the early years of his life, he doesn\u2019t go to school and he is frustrated by the conditions he lives in. <\/p>\n I don\u2019t want to give too much away about the boys\u2019 specific story, but readers are shown not just the physical challenges, but the emotional turmoil that refugees experience. They always have to have hope that life will change and that progression is possible, all the while dealing with the restrictions that poverty, legal red-tape and lack of opportunity place upon them. A character mentions that the refugee camp is like a prison, and readers will see how true that comparison is, and thus how traumatic it must be for children to grow up there.<\/p>\n