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.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000, 526
subjects: shulevitz, uri, 1935-, childhood and youth, juvenile fiction, fiction, refugees, juvenile fiction, maps, geography, fiction