Title The day of the pelican / Katherine Paterson.

Publication Info.

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection	CH/YA Fic Paters Day 2009	Available	---		Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.

Description	145 pages ; 22 cm
	age Children
Summary	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.
Contents	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.
Audience	Middle School.
	770 Lexile.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader 5.2.
	Reading Counts! 4.7.
Provenance	Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject	Refugees -- Juvenile fiction.
	Refugees.
	Refugee camps -- Juvenile fiction.
	Refugee camps.
	Muslims -- Juvenile fiction.
	Muslims.
	Albanians -- Kosovo (Republic) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Albanians.
	Kosovo (Republic)
	Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Kosovo War (1998-1999)
	Kosovo (Republic) -- History -- 1980-2008 -- Juvenile fiction.
	History.
Chronological Term	1980-2008
Subject	Serbia.
Genre/Form	Children's stories.
	Fiction.
	History.
	Juvenile works.
	Fiction.
ISBN	0547181884
	9780547181882