ISBN: 0889951012 9780889951013

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century

Page count: 32

<br> <br> <i>Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration winner</i> <p><i>Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Picture Book Award winner</i></p> <p><i>Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Text nominee</i></p> <p><i>The time is 1900, in the midst of the great waves of European immigration to North America. Standing in the dust and wind of the prairie, a young boy prepares to say good-bye to Josepha, his older classmate, who is leaving the alienating world of the classroom where no one speaks his language.</i></p> <p><i>But what a wonderful friend he has been! And without a common language between them, how will his younger friend ever say good-bye? What gift can he give Josepha to show how special their friendship has been?<br> <br></i></p> <p><i>Josepha depicts a facet of pioneer life seldom considered - the immigrant child's struggle to begin again in a strange land.</i></p> <br> <br>