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Someday We Will Fly
Contributor(s): DeWoskin, Rachel (Author)

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ISBN: 0670014966     ISBN-13: 9780670014965
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
OUR PRICE: $16.14  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical - Holocaust
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical - Asia
- Young Adult Fiction | Coming Of Age
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2018018516
Age Level: 12-UP
Grade Level: 7-UP
Lexile Measure: 800(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.3" L (1.05 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product
Review Citations: BookPage 02/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 11/12/2018
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2018 - Recommended - Readable
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2018 pg. 164
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2019
Booklist 02/15/2019 pg. 54
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2019 pg. 79
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
From the author of Blind, a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story set during World War II in Shanghai, one of the only places Jews without visas could find refuge.

Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen 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 her family was circus performers. She attends school sporadically, makes friends with Wei, a Chinese boy, and finds work as a performer at a gentlemen's club without her father's knowledge.

But meanwhile the conflict grows more intense as the Americans declare war and the Japanese force the Americans in Shanghai into camps. More bombing, more death. Can they survive, caught in the crossfire?

 
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