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Title: Broken Memory
Author: Elisabeth Combres
Genre: YA, Historical Fiction, International
Pages: 135
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Challenges: YA, POC
FTC Disclosure: I borrowed this book from my school's library
Summary (from the inside flap): Hiding behind the old sofa, five-year-old Emma does not see her mother being murdered, but she hears everything.

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And when the killers finally leave, the young Tutsi girl somehow manages to stumble away, mainly because of her mother's last words: "You must not die, Emma!" Eventually Emma is taken in by an old Hutu woman, who risks her own life to hide her.

But long after the war ends, Emma is still haunted by nightmares. Gradually, through her growing fiendship with another young victim and the gentle support of an old man charged with helping child survivors, she fins the courage to begin to heal and remember.

Moments of grace and tenderness undercut the terror and pain of this