Grade
5-9
Sonia Levitin
The Return
Mass Market Paperback
(Fawcett July 12, 1988)
, Reprint Edition
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.
- ISBN
- 0449702804 / 9780449702802
- Pages
- 192
- Weight
- 3.52 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.2 x 0.44 in.
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