When We Had to Leave Home

by Linda Ravin Lodding

Displaced by conflict in Ukraine, a young girl and her family must start again in a new country.

When war comes to Sofiya's country, she and her mother and grandmother are forced to set off on a long journey to escape the violence and find safety. Sofiya doesn't know whether she will ever see her friends or her beloved garden again, so she takes a sunflower with her as a reminder of all that she is leaving behind. But this homegrown...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807574813
• ISBN13: 9780807574812
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.1" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3