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Yossel's Journey
Kathryn Lasky
Illustrator: Johnson Yazzie
Ages: 6+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 978-1-62354-176-7
Keywords: displacement, friendship, persecution, Native American culture, immigration
When his family, fleeing from anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia, settles near a Navajo reservation in the American Southwest, Yossel finds a friend and shares cultural differences. Evocative painterly illustrations.