Someday We Will Fly Contributor(s): DeWoskin, Rachel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0670014966 ISBN-13: 9780670014965 Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2019 * Out of Print * |
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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