In 1937, the privileged and relatively carefee life of a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, whose family emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, to Shanghai, China, comes to an end when she finds an abandoned baby, her hero, Amelia Earhart, goes missing, and war breaks out with Japan. Based on the author’s family history.
- ISBN: 9780312370930
- Author: Alban, Andrea
- Published: 2011 , Feiwel & Friends
- Themes: Culture, Holocaust, Identity, Jewish, oppression, Refugees, World War II
- Descriptors: Asia, China, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Ukraine, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 208