| Return Contributor(s): Levitin, Sonia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0449702804 ISBN-13: 9780449702802 Publisher: Fawcett Books OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: July 1988 Annotation: Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle and set out on the long and dangerous trip to freedom -- an airlift from the Sudan to Israel, the Promised Land. They travel barefoot, facing hunger, thirst and bandits. "Vivid and compelling...Levitin's tour de force is sensitively written." BOOKLIST. An ALA 1987 Best Book for Young Adults. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Values & Virtues - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Lexile Measure: 720 |
| Series: Fawcett Juniper |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 4.19" W x 6.91" (0.22 lbs) 192 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 29768 Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0 |