How I Learned Geography
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Call Number: E SHU, R Caldecott Honor 2009
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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.
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lovely story
submitted by jayin on July 28, 2011, 3:42pm
This story won't actually help you learn geography, but it will touch your heart.
How I Learned Geography submitted by VanCancue on August 30, 2020, 11:07pm This book has nothing to to do with geography but a true story about a young polish refugee child his family, the passion he acquires while the family struggles through difficult times.
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Caldecott Honor book - 2009.
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) ; col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 660
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374334994
0374334994
SUBJECTS
Shulevitz, Uri, -- 1935- -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Maps -- Fiction.
Geography -- Fiction.
Imagination -- Fiction.