Orani: My Father's Village

by Claire A. Nivola

Book Overview

One of School Library Journal 's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 One of Horn Book 's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 As a child, Claire Nivola loved summers in Orani, the village where her father grew up and where her many aunts, uncles, and 50 cousins still lived. She ran freely through the town's cobbled streets with packs of cousins, who quizzed her about America while she took in all teh simple joys and pleasures of daily life in a village where surprises...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374356572
• ISBN13: 9780374356576
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3