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A Year Without Mom
by
Ages: 12+
Published: 2015
Publisher: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
ISBN: 978-1-55498-692-7
Keywords: Emigration
When her mother goes to study in America for a year, she leaves 12-year-old Dasha in Moscow with her grandparents during a year of political and personal change. Deceptively simple pen-and-ink wash graphics.