num_pages: 384
description: The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive the Bosnian genocide--and the stray cat who protected her family through it all.Amra was a teen in Bihac Bosnia when her friend said they couldnt speak anymore because Amra was Muslim. Then refugees from other cities started arriving fleeing Serbian persecution. When Serbian tanks rolled into Bihac the life she knew disappearedright as a stray cat followed her home. Her family didnt have the money to keep a pet but after the cat seemed to save her brother how could they turn it away? Saving a life one time could be a coincidence but then it happened againand Amra and her family wondered just what this cat was.This is the story of a teen who even in the brutality of war never wavered in her determination to obtain education maintain friendships and even find a first loveand the cat that provided comfort and maybe even served as a guardian spirit in the darkest of times.
language: English
title: The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
publisher: Bloomsbury YA