How I learned geography / Uri Shulevitz

Author: Shulevitz, Uri, 1935-
Published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2008]
Copyright Date: ©2008
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

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Summary

As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.

Subject(s)

Shulevitz, Uri, 1935-—Childhood and youth—Fiction
Shulevitz, Uri, 1935-—Childhood and youth—Juvenile fiction
Geography—Fiction
Imagination—Fiction
Refugees—Fiction
Refugees—Juvenile fiction
Maps—Juvenile fiction
Geography—Juvenile fiction
Imagination—Juvenile fiction
Maps—Fiction
Picture books for children

Genre(s)

Picture books for children

ISBN

9780374334994
0374334994

Audience

Second grade students

Audience Notes

Ages 4-7, Presch-2

Source of Acquisition

Great Valley copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20089.

Awards

Caldecott Honor Book, 2009.
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2009.

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