New from Katherine Paterson

You may be familiar with Katherine Paterson for her Newbery-winning Bridge to Terabithia or her Newbery-honor book The Great Gilly Hopkins. Paterson's newest book, The Day of the Pelican, brings readers across the Atlantic and back with the story of the Lleshi's, an Albanian family living in Kosovo during the Serbian uprising. As with her other books, Paterson's writing evokes a strong sense of character and setting as the reader learns of the Lleshi's escape from Kosovo through the eyes of the daughter Meli. At once the reader is captured by the unique details of Meli's life as a refugee. While fiction, the narrative reads like a memoir, allowing for the reader to follow the family through their first year in the United States. -Elaine B.