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The Return Trade paperback - 1988
by Sonia Levitin
- Used
- Paperback
When 12-year-old Ethiopian Jew Desta learns there are camps in the Sudan where transport for Israel is waiting, she sets out with her brother and younger sister on a journey to freedom. When her brother is killed, Desta must take the lead courageously as they travel to the promised land.
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Details
- Title The Return
- Author Sonia Levitin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition USED Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Fawcett, New York
- Publication date July 1988
- Features Bibliography, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 503584
- ISBN 9780449702802 / 0449702804
- Weight 0.22 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 6.91 x 4.19 x 0.53 in (17.55 x 10.64 x 1.35 cm)
- Age range 10 to 13 years
- Grade levels 5 - 8
- Reading level 720
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Category Young Adult Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Prejudices, Antisemitism
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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From the jacket flap
Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle and set out on the long and dangerous trip to freedom -- an airlift from the Sudan to Israel, the Promised Land. They travel barefoot, facing hunger, thirst and bandits. "Vivid and compelling...Levitin's tour de force is sensitively written." BOOKLIST. An ALA 1987 Best Book for Young Adults.
