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Anna Onichimowska

Ten Parts of the World
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Ten Parts of the World is a highly readable collection of stories featuring fifteen-year-olds living in different parts of the world today, from Japan to India to Poland and the Ukraine. Showcasing the striking differences in the standard of life and the opportunities available to the teenagers, the stories affirm the power of friendship and the need to hold on firmly to one’s hopes and dreams. Suitable for readers aged 12–15, with strong cross-over appeal.

About the author:

Anna Onichimowska writes both for children, young adults and adults. A graduate of the Warsaw University in Polish Philology, she devoted her master’s thesis to the work of Janusz Korczak, Poland’s most influential 20^th-century children’s author, pedagogist and dedicated children’s rights advocate. She is the author of over thirty books, numerous theatre plays, tv and radio dramas, as well as scripts for television. Her work has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes both in Poland and abroad (for details see author’s website) and translated into English, German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Chinese and Korean. President of the Polish Section of IBBY in the years 1995–2003, she is now a freelance writer based in Warsaw and travelling widely.

Also by this author:

The End of the World and Strawberries