After the Journey continues the stones of fictional refugees featured in the award-winning Leaving My Homeland series. Each book offers a thoughtful look at how refugee children and their families face and overcome challenges after fleeing their homelands. Each story updates readers on the conflict of the home country, and describes the kind of support a new country offers newcomers. My New Home After the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Etienne is a former child soldier from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His secret fear is he will never be safe. After Etienne escapes his captors, he and his mother and sister are reunited with family in Canada as refugees. Book jacket.