num_pages: 192
description: Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle and set out on the long and dangerous trip to freedom -- an airlift from the Sudan to Israel, the Promised Land. They travel barefoot, facing hunger, thirst and bandits. "Vivid and compelling...Levitin's tour de force is sensitively written." BOOKLIST. An ALA 1987 Best Book for Young Adults.
language: English
title: The Return
titlecomplete: The Return
genres: Fiction, Israel, Jewish, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Ethiopia, Judaism, Africa
ratings_count: 121
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Jewish Book Award
category: Children's Literature, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Sydney Taylor Book Award
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Fawcett Juniper