Status
Available
Call number
DDC/MDS
B HAU |
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, 1987, c1968.
Original publication date
1968
Description
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
Subjects
Language
Physical description
243 p.; 18 cm
ISBN
0690263716 / 9780690263718
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Children's Literature — 1969)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1971)
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Winner — 1968)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1970-1971)
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1971)
Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Winner — 1969)