The Day My Father Became a Bush
by Joke van Leeuwen
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Pub Date Apr 01 2014 | Archive Date Jul 11 2014
Gecko Press | Myrick Marketing & Media, LLC
Description
Before he becomes a bush, Toda’s father is a pastry chef. He gets up at the crack of dawn to bake twenty different sorts of pastries and three kinds of cake. Until, one day, everything changes. Fighting breaks out in the south and Toda’s father has to go there to defend his country.
Luckily he has a manual called ‘What every soldier needs to know’. This tells him how to hide from the enemy by using branches and leaves to disguise himself as a bush.
Toda remains in the city with her grandmother but even there it’s no longer safe. She is sent to stay with her mother who lives across the border. Toda’s journey is full of adventure and danger. But she doesn't give up. She has to find her mother.
Advance Praise
Starred Review. The language is smart, innocent and full of surprising—but age-fitting—turns of phrase...A brilliant, eerily engrossing evocation of war as it brushes up against youth—a harsh slice of the world during a mean piece of history. --Kirkus Reviews
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781877579486 |
| PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
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