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The day of the pelican
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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...
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.
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- Creator
- by Katherine Paterson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 144 pages
- ISBNs
- 9780547181882, 0547181884
- OCLC
- ocn313658166
- "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt."
- 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
Subjects
- Muslims -- Fiction.
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- Albanians -- Kosovo (Republic) -- Fiction.
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- Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Fiction.
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- Kosovo (Republic) -- History -- 1980-2008 -- Fiction.
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