Description |
353 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
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Educational level group: edu High school freshmen lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu High school sophomores lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu High school juniors lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu High school seniors lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu High school students lcdgt |
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Age group: age Teenagers lcdgt |
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National/regional group: nat Illinoisians lcdgt |
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Occupation/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members lcdgt |
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Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-357). |
Note |
Illustrations on endpapers. |
Summary |
Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.-- Provided by Publisher. |
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"Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is 15 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 they were circus performers."-- (Source of summary not specified) |
Audience |
800L lexile |
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Sentence length: 4 (hard) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) lexile. |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader UG 5.6 14.0. |
Subject |
Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- Juvenile fiction.
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Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
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Circus performers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Shanghai (China) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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China -- History -- 1937-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- Fiction.
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Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
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Circus performers -- Fiction.
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Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Fiction.
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Shanghai (China) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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China -- History -- 1937-1945 -- Fiction.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Coming of Age.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Historical -- Asia.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Historical -- Holocaust.
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Historical fiction (OCoLC)fst00957973
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Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
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China -- Shanghai.
(OCoLC)fst01205418
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Jews -- Juvenile fiction.
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Immigration and emigration -- Juvenile fiction.
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Circus performers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Jews -- Fiction.
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Immigration and emigration -- Fiction.
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Circus performers -- Fiction.
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Shanghai (China) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
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China -- History -- 1912-1949 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Shanghai (China) -- History -- Fiction.
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China -- History -- 1912-1949 -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Other Form: |
Online version: DeWoskin, Rachel. Someday we will fly. New York : Viking, published by Penguin Group, [2019] 9781101617885 (DLC) 2018024506 |
ISBN |
9780670014965 (hardback) |
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0670014966 (hardback) |
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9781984836243 (paperback) |
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1984836242 (paperback) |
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9781101617885 (ebook) |