Paterson, Katherine.

The day of the pelican / Katherine Paterson. - Boston : Sandpiper, [2010], c2009. - 145 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: Boston : Clarion Books, 2009.

The Lleshis of Kosovo -- Mehmet is missing -- Leaving home -- Camping -- A school in the hills -- At Uncle Fadil's -- Road to the unknown -- Terror and tragedy -- The bus -- Refugees -- A country far from home -- America -- Strangers in a strange land -- A new year -- 9/11 -- Country of the heart.

In 1998, when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and their family flees from one refugee camp to another until they can get to America.

ISBN: 9780547406275 (pbk.) 0547406274 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Refugee camps--Fiction.
Muslims--Fiction.
Albanians--Kosovo--iction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Kosovo (Republic)--History--1980-2008--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]