My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary - Hardcover

Halilbegovic, Nadja

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1553377974 ISBN 13: 9781553377979

Publisher: Kids Can Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Offers the story of one young girl who grew into a young woman during the siege of Sarajevo by surviving the constant bombings, sniper attacks, and a critical lack of basic supplies for three long years. Jr Lib Guild.

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Review:

[Immediate and resonant.

[I]mmediate and resonant.

[I]mmediate and resonant. Publishers Weekly"

Her terse vignettes replay the horror of her comfortable home torn apart. The haunting question, 'Why did the world allow it to happen?' drives her powerful plea for peace.--Booklist

[I]mmediate and resonant.--Publishers Weekly

This is an important book as it reveals the effects of a little-known war on innocent people from a personal perspective.--School Library Journal

This book keeps readers entranced as they learn of the horror, savagery and cruelty that took place during the war.--Canadian Children's Book News

This book keeps readers entranced as they learn of the horror, savagery and cruelty that took place during the war.

Canadian Children's Book News

This is an important book as it reveals the effects of a little-known war on innocent people from a personal perspective.

School Library Journal

[I]mmediate and resonant.

Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Nadja Halilbegovich is a survivor of the war in Bosnia. She was twelve when the war began and throughout the war she wrote her diary. At the age of 14, she published her diary in the war-torn city of Sarajevo and became known as the Bosnian Anne Frank. She was wounded by a bombshell and still carries seven pieces of shrapnel in her legs. She escaped the war at the age of 16 and finished high school and university in the United States. She became an active public speaker for peace and tolerance.
In 2006, she published a book entitled My Childhood Under Fire in the U.S. and Canada. Her book has been awarded the ?2006 Best Book Award? under Social Studies by the Society of School Librarians International as well as nominated for the Norma Fleck Award and the Golden Oak Award. A French translation has been released in 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kids Can Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1553377974
• ISBN 13: 9781553377979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120