Adapting to Life Changes
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Distributor: UTP Distribution Supplies to: CA Availability: Available On Sale Date: Mar 01, 2020 Carton Quantity: 30 $16.95 CAD
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Distributor: Publishers Group West Supplies to: US Availability: Available On Sale Date: Mar 03, 2020 Carton Quantity: 30 $16.95 USD
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A Year Without MomBy (author): Dasha Tolstikova Illustrated by: Dasha TolstikovaDasha Tolstikova ,Illustrated by :
Dasha TolstikovaImprint:
Groundwood Books - TorontoISBN:
9781773063799Product Form:
PaperbackForm detail:
Trade, Picture bookPaperback , Trade, Picture bookEnglishAudience:
Juvenile: Age (years) 10 - 14, Grade (CAN) 5 - 9, Grade (US) 5 - 9Mar 01, 2020$16.95 CAD
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8.5in x 6.5 x 0.7 in | 1.1 lbPage Count:
168 pagesIllustrations:
Full color throughoutGroundwood Books LtdGroundwood BooksJUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / GeneralKirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of the Year 2015, Commended Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Graphic Novels of the Year 2015, Commended A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year 2016, Commended USBBY Outstanding International Book 2016, Commended- Short Description
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A stunning graphic novel debut, A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America.Now available in paperback, Dasha Tolstikova’s acclaimed graphic novel A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America.
It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America — a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves.
Dasha Tolstikova’s major talent is on full display in this gorgeous and subtly illustrated graphic novel.
Key Text Features
mapCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.DASHA TOLSTIKOVA is the author and illustrator of The Bad Chair and A Year Without Mom, which received four starred reviews and was selected as an USBBY Outstanding International Book. Dasha has illustrated several picture books, including Violet and the Woof by Rebecca Grabill, Friend or Foe? by John Sobol and The Jacket by Kirsten Hall. Her illustrations have also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
DASHA TOLSTIKOVA is the author and illustrator of The Bad Chair and A Year Without Mom, which received four starred reviews and was selected as an USBBY Outstanding International Book. Dasha has illustrated several picture books, including Violet and the Woof by Rebecca Grabill, Friend or Foe? by John Sobol and The Jacket by Kirsten Hall. Her illustrations have also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Deceptively simple, but with great narrative sophistication . . . Fascinating and heartfelt. - Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW
An absorbing graphic memoir. . . . Readers will wish the sequel were available instantly. - Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
A lovely portrayal in words and art of a year in the life of an engaging tween girl from the other side of the world. - School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
The author includes authentic details . . . and, with personality and sincerity, creates an accessible, truthful, and relatable record for readers of a different generation. - Horn Book Magazine, STARRED REVIEW
A perceptive story about change, aloneness, ambition and, ultimately, resilience. - New York Times
A quiet, moving, and contemplative story of growth. - Booklist
Told in quiet fragments, sewn together with ribbons of girlhood. - National Post
Moving and beautifully illustrated . . . in sparingly coloured and expressive drawings that invite readers to linger. - Winnipeg Free Press
The excitement of meeting a teen actor, the agony of a crush, the pain of changed friendships — all this resonates cross-culturally. - The Toronto Star
Tolstikova has real insight into the minds of tweens [and] a keen ear for the nuances of tween conversation.
- CM Review of Materials
