Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars - A Vietnamese War Orphan Finds Home

A beautiful omnibus edition of the award-winning biographies Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan¿s Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way

Info autore

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is a multi-award-winning author of historical fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults. Dance of the Banished was a USSBY Outstanding International Book, a White Ravens Selection, and the winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War won the Red Cedar Information Book Award and its sequel, One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way won the OLA Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Both were Bank Street Best Books. Her other acclaimed titles include Stolen Girl, Making Bombs for Hitler, and The War Below. In 2008, in recognition of her outstanding achievement in the development of the culture of Ukraine, Marsha was awarded the Order of Princess Olha. She lives in Brantford, Ontario.

Riassunto

A beautiful omnibus edition of the award-winning biographies Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way

Prefazione

7,000-copy print run; featured at ALA Midwinter, PLA, TLA, and ALA Annual with the Publisher Spotlight booth; Original editions garnered strong reviews from The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, and more; targeted marketing to influential bloggers, and major library system selectors; author tour in early spring 2020; promotion on social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest; E-newsletter promotionPublisher

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 8 a 12 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781772780949
• ISBN: 978-1-77278-094-9
• Pagine: 224
• Illustrazioni: Includes archival photographs
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi > Saggi / saggi illustrati > Storia, politica; Ontario, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Military & Wars, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Asia, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Family / Adoption, Ho Chi Minh City, c 1970 to c 1979, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Disabilities & Special Needs, Southwestern Ontario