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Author Paterson, Katherine.

Title The day of the pelican / Katherine Paterson.

Publication Info. Boston : Clarion Books, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J PATERSON    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Children's Department  JF PAT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J FIC PATERSON    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  TWEEN-PATERSON    Check Shelf
Description 145 pages ; 22 cm
Contents 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.
Summary In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.2 6.0 133458.
Subject Refugees -- Fiction.
Refugee camps -- Fiction.
Muslims -- Fiction.
Albanians -- Yugoslavia -- Kosovo (Serbia) -- Fiction.
Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Fiction.
Kosovo (Republic) -- History -- 1980-2008 -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Juvenile fiction.
Refugee camps -- Juvenile fiction.
Muslims -- Juvenile fiction.
Albanians -- Yugoslavia -- Kosovo (Serbia) -- Juvenile fiction.
Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Juvenile fiction.
Kosovo (Republic) -- History -- 1980-2008 -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN 9780547181882
0547181884
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