Paperback, 200 pages
English language
Published Dec. 31, 1994 by Scholastic Inc..
3 stars
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Begins as the day-to-day record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipović becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor's cellar.
Subjects
- Children and war
- Diaries
- Bosnian Personal narratives
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995
- Children
- History
Places
- Bosnia and Hercegovina
- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Sarajevo