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Someday we will fly / by Rachel DeWoskin.
LIBRA PZ7.D537 Som 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeWoskin, Rachel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--China--Shanghai--Juvenile fiction.
- Jews.
- Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Circus performers--Juvenile fiction.
- Circus performers.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Juvenile fiction.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
- History.
- Shanghai (China)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Shanghai (China).
- China--History--1937-1945--Juvenile fiction.
- China.
- Jews--China--Shanghai--Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Circus performers--Fiction.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Fiction.
- Shanghai (China)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- China--History--1937-1945--Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- China--Shanghai.
- Genre:
- Young adult fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 353 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
- Summary:
- Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.-- Provided by Publisher.
- "Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is 15 when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one of the few places that will accept Jews without visas. There they struggle to make a life; they have no money, there is little work, no decent place to live, a culture that doesn't understand them. And always the worry about Alenka. How will she find them? Is she still alive? Meanwhile Lillia is growing up, trying to care for Naomi, whose development is frighteningly slow, in part from malnourishment. Lillia finds an outlet for her artistic talent by making puppets, remembering the happy days in Warsaw when they were circus performers."-- (Source of summary not specified)
- Lillia, her younger sister Naomi, , and their father fled Warsaw in 1940. Shanghai was one of the few places that would accept Jews without visas. She worries about how their mother, Alenka, would find them. Lillia finds an outlet for her artistic talent by making puppets, remembering the happy days in Warsaw when they were circus performers. She makes friends with Wei, a Chinese boy, and finds work as a performer at a "gentlemen's club" without her father's knowledge. As the Americans declare war and the Japanese force the Americans in Shanghai into camps, will LIlia's family survive? -- adapted from goodreads.com
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-357).
- Illustrations on endpapers.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Young Adult Literature, Winner, 2019
- Other Format:
- Online version: DeWoskin, Rachel. Someday we will fly.
- ISBN:
- 9780670014965
- 0670014966
- 9781984836243
- 1984836242
- OCLC:
- 1037885048
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