Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

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The book begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovi´c becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor's cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. It is a personal diary of the author's written between September 1991 and October 1993. It is filled with bomb, snipers, shortages, the death of a close friend, and how war effects the world and family of a young adolescent.
9780143036876

Details

Guided Reading Level
X
Accelerated Reader Level
4.3
Lexile Reading Level
640
Fiction / Nonfiction
NF
Author
Filipovic, Zlata
Publisher
Penguin Random House LLC

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