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By Sonia Levitin; Sonia Levitin
Publisher Random House Publishing Group - (Fawcett)
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Fifteenyearold 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...Levitins tour de force is sensitively written. BOOKLIST. An ALA 1987 Best Book for Young Adults.

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54076 words54,076 words
192 pages192 pages
Lexile 720LLexile 720L
Grade 6 to 8Grade 6 to 8

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Book ISBN:

9780449702802

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