A Year Without Mom - Paperback
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Now available in paperback, Dasha Tolstikova's acclaimed graphic novel A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America.
It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America -- a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves.
Dasha Tolstikova's major talent is on full display in this gorgeous and subtly illustrated graphic novel.
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Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Dasha Tolstikova is the author/illustrator of the award-winning graphic memoir A Year Without Mom. Dasha also illustrated The Jacket, by Kirsten Hall (New York Times Review Notable Book of 2014); If a T-Rex Crashes Your Birthday Party, by Jill Esbaum; Friend or Foe, by John Sobol; and Violet and the Woof, by Rebecca Grabill. Dasha's illustration work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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