My Palace of Leaves in Sarajevo

Zlata's Diary was a popular and award-winning story about the war in Yugoslavia in the 1990's. Here is another story about that war by Marybeth Lorbiecki with illustrations by Herbert Tauss. Covering the years of 1991-1995, it is told as a collection of letters between a girl named Nadja and her cousin in Minnesota. The letters describe the horrors of war on one side, and offer reasons for hope on the other.