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From the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal comes a memorable new work, a novel of singular insight and imagination that transports readers to the Old Country, where "all the fairy tales come from, where there was magic -- and there was war." There, Gisella stares a moment too long into the... read more

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Long ago, in an old, old country, a little girl named Gisella lived on a small farm surrounded by woods and mountains.

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  1. Mordicai Gerstein (Author)

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  1. animals
  2. fantasy
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