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Someday we will fly, Rachel DeWoskin

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Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen 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 her family was circus performers. She attends school sporadically, makes friends with Wei, a Chinese boy, and finds work as a performer at a "gentlemen's club" without her father's knowledge. But meanwhile the conflict grows more intense as the Americans declare war and the Japanese force the Americans in Shanghai into camps. More bombing, more death. Can they survive, caught in the crossfire?
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
353 pages
Note
"While the world fights a war, Lillia fights to survive"--Cover
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9781984836243
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Someday we will fly
Title
Someday we will fly
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Rachel DeWoskin
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Author
Subject
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Language
eng
Summary
Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen 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 her family was circus performers. She attends school sporadically, makes friends with Wei, a Chinese boy, and finds work as a performer at a "gentlemen's club" without her father's knowledge. But meanwhile the conflict grows more intense as the Americans declare war and the Japanese force the Americans in Shanghai into camps. More bombing, more death. Can they survive, caught in the crossfire?
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DeWoskin, Rachel
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[Fic]
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fiction
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  • Jews
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Circus performers
  • Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
  • Young adult fiction
  • Shanghai (China)
  • China
Target audience
adolescent
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Someday we will fly, Rachel DeWoskin
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Publication
Note
"While the world fights a war, Lillia fights to survive"--Cover
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Includes bibliographical references
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volume
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rdacarrier.
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  • text
  • cartographic image
Content type code
  • txt
  • cri
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  • rdacontent.
  • rdacontent.
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
353 pages
Isbn
9781984836243
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(pbk.)
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unmediated
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rdamedia.
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  • n
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map
Specific material designation
regular print
Label
Someday we will fly, Rachel DeWoskin
Publication
Note
"While the world fights a war, Lillia fights to survive"--Cover
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
  • text
  • cartographic image
Content type code
  • txt
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent.
  • rdacontent.
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
353 pages
Isbn
9781984836243
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
map
Specific material designation
regular print

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