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The day of the pelican / Katherine Paterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paterson, Katherine, author.
- 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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