The story follows young Joseph Charnetski and his family as they flee their home in the Ukraine ahead of rampaging Tartars. The rest of the book is a fictionalized account of 15th-century Krakow as it moves from the 'dark' ages into the scientific era. It was also during this time that he wrote The Trumpeter of Krakow, a story that celebrates the bravery and beauty of the Polish people despite all odds. Kelly came to Poland, joining them in 'building Poland into a very miracle of a nation' as he called it in an autobiographical note for The Horn Book collection. In those tenuous years between the wars, Poland managed to preserve and even strengthen its national spirit and culture, much of which was retained as Polish immigrants came to the United States. Sitting as it does between Germany and various Russian territories, its restoration in 1918 was doomed to be short-lived as its population was decimated by the Holocaust, and it became a communist outpost (or Satellite State) of the Soviet Union following WWII. Centuries before, Poland had been a thriving and powerful country, but for decades it had been the victim of ongoing power struggles in Europe and Asia. OL266031W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.79 Pages 230 Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 514 References School Library Journal Library Journal Booklist Horn Book Christian Library, August 2004 Scandate 20110409064620 Scanner 1919, the world was still reeling from the catastrophes of World War I, and the nation of Poland was shaking off its feathers having been reborn from the ashes of war. Urn:lcp:trumpeterofkra00kell:epub:fd7587d8-0b41-4ccc-8943-5b4128e26f05 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier trumpeterofkra00kell Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2z32p31x Isbn 0689715714Ġ689829922 Lccn 91026879 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary_edition

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