Soumchi Booker Prize Nominee (2010) Readers of this book will

Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again

of its first edition in 1934

including such famous brands as Champagne Veuve Clicquot and Liberty

We find our hope where they found theirs

Soumchi Booker Prize Nominee (2010) Readers of this book willWhen Soumchi, an eleven year old boy growing up in British occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyedeven if it is a girl's bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighborhood, he dreams of riding far away from them, out of the city and across the desert, toward the heart of Africa. But first he wants to show his new prize to his friend Aldo