| The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out Who You Are Contributor(s): Yerkow, Lila Perl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0395547903 ISBN-13: 9780395547908 Publisher: Clarion Books OUR PRICE: $8.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1990 Annotation: With lively, anecdotal writing, Lila Perl guides young readers on an ancestor-hunting quest. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Reference - General - Juvenile Nonfiction | Family - Multigenerational - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - General |
| Dewey: 929 |
| LCCN: 88036211 |
| Lexile Measure: 1170 |
| Series: Clarion Nonfiction |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" (0.50 lbs) 112 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 59577 Reading Level: 8.3 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Includes details on how to create your own direct-ancestry chart. |
Contributor Bio(s): Yerkow, Lila Perl: - Lila Perl Yerkow (1921-2013) received a B. A. from Brooklyn College and studied at both Columbia University and New York University. She began writing children's books when her children started elementary school. Yerkow wrote more than 60 books in her lifetime, including the Fat Glenda series, The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out Who You Are, and Behind Barbed Wire: The Story of Japanese Internment During World War II. In 1996, she co-authored Marion Blumenthal Lazan's memoir, Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story. |