A Year Without Mom
A Year Without Mom follows 12-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her...
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A Year Without Mom follows 12-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America — a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves. This gorgeous and subtly illustrated graphic novel signals the emergence of Dasha Tolstikova as a major new talent.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781554986927 (1554986923)
ASIN: 1554986923
Publish date: 2015-10-13
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Beautiful watercolor illustrations tell the story of young Dasha's year from the point when her mother decides to leave Russia to attend an advertising school in the U.S. Dasha stays in Russia with her grandparents and does a lot of growing up without her mom around. It's kind of sad and bitters...
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