How I Learned Geography
by Uri Shulevitz
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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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Fiction, Maps, Refugees, Childhood and youth, Geography, Imagination, Shulevitz, Uri,, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Refugees, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Juventud, Mapas, Imaginación, Ficción juvenil, Geografía, Refugiados, Picture books for children, Spanish language materials, collectionID:caldecotthonor00People
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How I Learned Geography
April 1, 2008, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), Farrar Straus Giroux
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0374334994 9780374334994
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En esta historia, basada en los recuerdos de su infancia durante la II Guerra Mundial, Uri Shulevitz cuenta cómo un mapa lo llevó, con la ayuda de su imaginación, muy lejos del hambre, la miseria y el sufrimiento.
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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