num_pages: 62
description: Living in a high mountain village in Ethiopia, Menelik, a young Ethiopian Jew, and his family are confronted with life-threatening oppression and persecution, and his father decides to lead the family on a perilous odyssey in search of sanctuary in Israel.
language: English
title: When I Left My Village: Library Edition
titlecomplete: When I Left My Village: Library Edition
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Dial Books