A remarkable and gripping story about one refugee boy on a desperate journey from Afghanistan, and the Australian boy who befriends him.

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Each step becomes a heartbeat and I feel the distance between Omed and me closing. I remember when I first met him - when he had showed me what bravery meant. How he had stood up for what he believed. In the end that had been his undoing.

Omed's and Hector's beautifully told and compelling journeys will grip hold of your heart and not let go.

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This deceptively slim volume accomplishes no mean feat: working as a young-adult novel that tackles weighty political issues while delivering all the action and suspense an easily distracted teen reader could ask for. It's a forked narrative that brings together two radically different worlds.
— John Bailey (The Age)

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