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Book Nook: 'Finding Home: Words from Kids Seeking Sanctuary' by Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner

An interview with Gwen Agna.

There are 100 million refugees worldwide, many of them children. Massive dislocations continue to increase as climate change, war, starvation, political tumult, and other factors are dislodging human beings from their homelands.

Gwen Agna is a former elementary school principal who knows firsthand the impacts that refugee children who have been placed in difficult positions; of seeking safety and sanctuary and calmer environments, are experiencing.

The Book Nook on WYSO is presented by the Greene County Public Library with additional support from Washington-Centerville Public LibraryClark County Public LibraryDayton Metro LibraryWright Memorial Public Library, and Tipp City Public.

Vick Mickunas introduced the Book Nook author interview program for WYSO in 1994. Over the years he has produced more than 1500 interviews with writers, musicians, poets, politicians, and celebrities. Listen to the Book Nook with Vick Mickunas for intimate conversations about books with the writers who create them. Vick Mickunas reviews books for the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News Sun.