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A time of miracles / Anne-Laure Bondoux ; translated from the French by Y. Maudet.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Delacorte Press, c2010.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 180 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0385739222
  • 038590777X (Gibraltar lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
  • 9780385739221 (hbk. : alk paper)
  • 9780385907774 (Gibraltar lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Temps des miracles. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Batchelder Award, 2011
Summary: In the early 1990s, a boy with a mysterious past and the woman who cares for him endure a five-year journey across the war-torn Caucasus and Europe, weathering hardships and welcoming unforgettable encounters with other refugees searching for a better life.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Bondoux Ann Available 33111006839852
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Winner of the Batchelder Award--this tale of of exile, sacrifice, hope, and survival is a story of ultimate love.

Blaise Fortune, also known as Koumaïl, loves hearing the story of how he came to live with Gloria in the Republic of Georgia: Gloria was picking peaches in her father's orchard when she heard a train derail. After running to the site of the accident, she found an injured woman who asked Gloria to take her baby. The woman, Gloria claims, was French, and the baby was Blaise.
 
When Blaise turns seven years old, the Soviet Union collapses and Gloria decides that she and Blaise must flee the political troubles and civil unrest in Georgia. The two make their way westward on foot, heading toward France, where Gloria says they will find safe haven. But what exactly is the truth about Blaise's past?
Bits and pieces are revealed as he and Gloria endure a five-year journey across the Caucasus and Europe, weathering hardships and welcoming unforgettable encounters with other refugees searching for a better life. During this time Blaise grows from a boy into an adoles¢ but only later, as a young man, can he finally attempt to untangle his identity.
 
Bondoux's heartbreaking tale of exile, sacrifice, hope, and survival is a story of ultimate love.

In the early 1990s, a boy with a mysterious past and the woman who cares for him endure a five-year journey across the war-torn Caucasus and Europe, weathering hardships and welcoming unforgettable encounters with other refugees searching for a better life.

Ages 12-up.

Batchelder Award, 2011

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