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Author

Lombard, Jenny.

Title Drita, my homegirl / by Jenny Lombard.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2006.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Meadowlark Fiction	F LOM	---	Available
Nettels Fiction	F LOMBARD	---	Available
Westside Fiction	F LOM	---	Available

Description	135 p. ; 22 cm.
Indexed In:	Bklst 05/01/2006
	SLJ Mar 2006
	PW 03/27/2006
	Kirkus 01/15/2006
	Multicul Dec 2006
Summary	When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond.
Study Program	ACCELERATED READER RL 3.9 P 4.0 WEST GNET
Subject	Refugees -- Fiction.
	Immigration and emigration -- Fiction.
	Albanian Americans -- Fiction.
	Family life -- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
	Friendship -- Fiction.
	School stories.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN	9780399243806
	0399243801