Girl of Kosovo
by Alice Mead
Published in 2001 by Farrar Straus and Giroux
Subject: Ethnic conflict, Balkans
ISBN 0374326207

Summary
Eleven year old Zana Dugolli loves her village life in Kosovo. But her life has never felt secure. Albanian Kosovars have long been denied basic freedoms, and relationships with Serbs have been tense at best. Now the Serb special police are stopping buses and checking I.D.'s. They are looking for weapons and members of the KLA. One day the leader of the KLA is murdered and his family massacred. The tinderbox that has been Kosovo explodes. Mortar shells rain down on Zana's village.

This essentially true story, based on the experience of a young boy the author met in Kosovo, this novel will help young readers understand this war and how it might be possible for a child to survive without bitterness.

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