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The day of the pelican / Katherine Paterson.

Van Pelt Library PZ7.P273 Day 2010
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Paterson, Katherine, author.
Contributor:
Immigrant and Refugee Experiences in Children's and Young Adult Literature Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Muslims.
Albanians.
Refugee camps.
Refugees.
Kosovo (Republic)--History--1980-2008--Fiction.
Kosovo (Republic).
Serbia.
Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Juvenile fiction.
Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Refugee camps--Juvenile fiction.
Albanians--Juvenile fiction.
Muslims--Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Refugee camps--Fiction.
Muslims--Fiction.
Albanians--Kosovo--Fiction.
Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Children's stories.
Physical Description:
145 pages ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2010]
Summary:
In 1998, when Kosovo hostilities escalate, 13-year-old Meli Lleshi's life as an ethnic Albanian changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and their family flees from one refugee camp to another until they can get to America.
Contents:
The Lleshis of Kosovo
Mehmet is missing
Leaving home
Camping
A school in the hills
At Uncle Fadil's
Road to the unknown
Terror and tragedy
The bus
Refugees
A country far from home
America
Strangers in a strange land
A new year
9/11
Country of the heart
Historical note.
Notes:
Originally published: Boston : Clarion Books, 2009.
"Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Harcourt."
Author was National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (Library of Congress) for 2010 and 2011.
ISBN:
9780547406275
0547406274
9780547181882
0547181884
9780606147170
0606147179
OCLC:
505420697

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