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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wolo, Mamle, author.
Title: Flying through water / Mamle Wolo.
Description: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. | Audience: Ages 8–12. | Summary: Sena thinks he is helping his poverty-stricken family when a man calling himself Jack of Diamonds promises him a job and a better life, but he ends up in the clutches of human traffickers and must use all his resolve to escape and survive.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023028041 | ISBN 9780316703963 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316703956 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Human trafficking—Fiction. | Survival—Fiction. | Ghana—Fiction. | LCGFT: Novels.
Classification: LCC PZ7.W83655 Fl 2024 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023028041
ISBNs: 978-0-316-70396-3 (hardcover), 978-0-316-70395-6 (ebook)
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