The Boy from Pleebo

Have You Ever Wondered: “Did That Emaciated And Tattered-Clothed African Refugeechild On Tv Ever Have Childhood Aspirations?” Meet Sylvester Youlo—Born Toteenage Parents In Pleebo A Small Town In Liberia Where Survival Intoadulthood Isn’T Sure And A College Education Is An Impossible Dream.Consequence Of A Class-Segregation Created By Free Slaves From The United States That Settled In This Coastal West African Country In 1821 It Is At Five Yearsof Age When Sylvester First Realizes That The Woman He Knows As Yah Is Hisgrandmother; That His Parents Moved To The Affluent City Of Monrovia—A City Thatholds The Keys To Success—In Pursuit Of The Life Of The Country’S Eliteamerico-Liberians When He Was Only Nine Months Old. But Just As He Begins Tounderstand This Reality And Starts To Imagine A Glorious Future Alongside Hisparents In The Big City Life Implodes When Grandmother Inexplicably ‘Abandons’Sylvester To Relatives And A Brutal Civil War That Will Kill And Maim Thousandssoon Begins.. . The Boy From Pleebo Is The Gut-Wrenching Yet Heartwarming Story Of A Youngafrican Child’S Struggle To Maintain His Innocent-Optimism In The Face Ofcrippling Illnesses Poverty Near-Death Experiences From A War Fraught Withethnic Cleansing Of His Tribe His Hopeless Journey Through Years Of Refugeecamps And How He Became One Of Top Graduates In An American Medical School. It Is A Story Of Perseverance Survival And Never Quitting On A Dream.(Title Change. Previously Titled A Series Of Transforming Events As An Ebook)