The day of the pelican

Description:

In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.

subjects: Albanians,  Refugee camps,  Fiction,  Muslims,  Refugees,  Kosovo War, 1998-1999,  History,  Juvenile fiction,  Historical sociology,  Homeless persons,  Hunger,  Diseases,  Church group work,  Children's fiction,  Refugees, fiction,  Muslims, fiction,  Europe, fiction