A Present for Yanya

by Peggy Mann

In Yugoslavia not long after World War II, a young girl dreams of owning the doll she sees in a market window, knowing her family can never afford to buy it. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394824253
• ISBN13: 9780394824253
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

One of My Childhood Favorites

When I was young, my grandmother gave this book to me. Although I was an avid reader, at first I didn't want to read a story about someone with a strange name in a strange land, but eventually I did read it. Once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. I must have read this story a hundred times. This enterprizing girl enchanted me. She worked hard, and never had any of the finer things, like toys or icecream or shoes. I was impressed how she took a difficult situation, and turned it into an opportunity do something kind for her mother, and eventually create a new life for her under-priveledged family. What a wonderful book - riviting, but still manages to instill great values along the way.