First American edition published in 2020 by Kar-Ben Publishing

 

Text copyright © 2000 by Naomi Shmuel

Illustrations copyright © 2000 by Avi Katz

 

First published as Rainbow Child in 2000 by Hakibbutz Hameyuchad/Sifriyat Poalim Publishing

Published by arrangement with Hakibbutz Hameyuchad/Sifriyat Poalim Publishing

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Names: Shmuel, Naomi, author. | Katz, Avi, illustrator.

Title: Too far from home / Naomi Shmuel ; illustrated by Avi Katz.

Description: Minneapolis, MN : Kar-Ben Publishing, [2020] | Series: Kar-Ben for older readers | Summary: Eleven-year-old Meskerem, half-Ethiopian and half-American, faces prejudice when she enters a new school just as Israel is coping with a large influx of new immigrants from Ethiopia.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019007627| ISBN 9781541546714 (th : alk. paper)

Subjects: | CYAC: Moving, Household—Fiction. | Prejudices—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Ethiopians—Israel—Fiction. | Jews—Israel—Fiction. | Israel—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S5142 Cal 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

 

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019007627

 

Manufactured in the United States of America

1-45649-41662-8/20/2019