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A Long Way Home Young Readers' Edition

Saroo Brierley

The book recounts the true story of a five-year-old boy from India who gets lost on a train, ending up thousands of miles from home. After surviving alone in Kolkata and being adopted by an Australian couple, he embarks on a journey as an adult to find his birth family using Google Earth.

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A Long Way Home

A Memoir

Saroo Brierley

The memoir recounts the journey of a five-year-old Indian boy who gets lost on a train, ending up thousands of miles from home, and is eventually adopted by an Australian couple. Decades later, he uses memory fragments and Google Earth to find his birth family and reconnect with his lost past.

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