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Two hundred and sixty thousand women in America have breast cancer. Another one million have it, but don't know it yet. Every woman's story is unique. Alice Mead was a vibrant art teacher, mom and human rights activist. At 42 she began to drop things, walk slowly, and fall down. The odds were one in a million that it was an autoimmune reaction, caused by a tumor. The doctors ignored her symptoms for 8 years. The invasive lobular cancer didn't show up on X-Rays, CT scans, or MRI's. Not wanting to be a caretaker, her husband became emotionally abusive and left. Her mother died from Alzheimer's...

Nine-year-old Rayanne's life turns upside down when her father leaves and she has to move off the Penobscot reservation and go to live with her grandmother.

Alice Mead is the author of many notable books about children displaced by modern wars: Girl of Kosovo, Dawn and Dusk, plus award-winner, Junebug. Here she tells the story of Tutsi orphan trapped outside the border of Rwanda in 1993. With Neema's Little Ghost Book, Mead tells the story of a ten year old orphan, separated from her brothers in the Congo/Rwanda border region and her struggles to get home.