The day of the pelican / Katherine Paterson.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780547406275
- ISBN: 0547406274
- ISBN: 9780547181882
- ISBN: 0547181884
- Physical Description: 145 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
General Note: | 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. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Target Audience Note: | 770L Lexile Grades 4-8. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader MG 5.2 6 6 133458 |
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Genre: | Children's stories. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Dalton Community Library | JUV PATERSO (Text) | 50689010302106 | Juv Fiction | Available | - | ||
Lackawanna County Children's Library | JUV PATERSO (Text) | 50686013798264 | Juv Fiction | Available | - |