Yossel's Journey - Hardcover

by Kathryn Lasky (Author), Johnson Yazzie (Illustrator)

"Yossel, along with his family, flees the anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the 1880s and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--

Author Biography

Kathryn Lasky is the acclaimed author of dozens of books for young readers, including Tumble Bunnies, Hatchling, the bestselling Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, and Sugaring Time, a Newbery Honor book. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Born on the Navajo Nation in Pinon, Arizona, Johnson Yazzie's interest in creation began in childhood and led to a lifelong career in fine art as a painter, bronze sculptor, and illustrator. The Navajo word hózhó means balance, harmony, beauty. It is the word by which he lives.