A thirst for home : a story of water across the world
(2014)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
PICTURE/STORIES/IERONIMO,C
0 Holds on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury, 2014
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802723079 (hardback), 0802723071 (hardback), 9780802723086 (library edition), 080272308X (library edition)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life, an American family adopts Alemitu"--