NAVEED: THROUGH MY EYES<br><b>John Heffernan, ed Lyn White</b><br><i>Allen & Unwin</i>
Afghanistan has endured generations of conflict. Naveed is the 14-year-old head of a household consisting of his mother and sister Anoosheh, who lost her lower legs to an IED.
His father was killed at the market by a suicide bomber, as the boy watched. Now he works to support the family, making deliveries, washing cars, fossicking at the dump for anything he can sell and even very carefully digging around derelict war vehicles in a minefield for anything of value.
After a stray dog attaches herself to Naveed he meets an Australian, seconded to a US unit, who is a dog handler dealing with hidden explosives who takes him under his wing. Ages 15+.
- René Nol is a Dunedin reader.
