My palace of leaves in Sarajevo
By: Marybeth Lorbiecki ; illustrated by Herbert Tauss.
Contributors: Tauss, Herbert, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Cousins -- Fiction.; Letters -- Fiction.; Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) -- History -- Siege, 1992-1996 -- Juvenile fiction.; Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) -- History -- Siege, 1992-1996 -- Fiction.
Description: In 1991, ten-year-old Nadja begins writing to her cousin in Minnesota, and over the next four years, her letters reveal the horrors of war in this former republic of Yugoslavia, while her cousin's letters give Nadja and her family some hope.