The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out Who You Are

by Lila Perl Yerkow

Overview

Includes details on how to create your own direct-ancestry chart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395547908
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/01/1990
Series:	Clarion Nonfiction Series
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1170L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

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. 
 

Editorial Reviews

"This attractive, immensely readable guide to genealogy provides both information and encouragement." School Library Journal, Starred —

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