The golden bull
By: Marjorie Cowley.
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Watertown, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781580891813
Subjects: Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; Apprentices -- Fiction; Iraq -- History -- To 634 -- Juvenile fiction; Iraq -- History -- To 634 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction; Juvenile fiction
Description: During a severe drought in Mesopotamia in 2600 B.C., when their parents can no longer support them, Jomar and his sister Zefa are sent to the city of Ur, where Jomar is apprenticed to a goldsmith and Zefa must try to find a way to keep from becoming a slave. Includes author's note on the history of the region.