Book
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
- Published
- 1968
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 256
- Words
- 61776
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296384.The_Endless_Steppe?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.3
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 880L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–10
- Ambleside year
- Year 6 onwards · ages 11–14
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
Collections
Mensa Kids · 7-8
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780064405775
- ISBN-10
- 006440577X
Tags
Adventure-SurvivalAward Winners-Boston Globe/Horn Book Award/HonorsAward Winners-Jane Addams Book Award/Honor BooksAward Winners-Sydney Taylor Award/HonorFamily Life-Misc./OtherMensa KidsNatural Environments-WildernessPeople-JewishPower Lessons Vocabulary-Grades 7 & UpRecommended Reading-California Recommended Lit., English, 6-8Recommended Reading-California Recommended Lit., English, 9-12Recommended Reading-Jewish StarsRecommended Reading-NY Publ. Library Best Books for the Teen AgeRecommended Reading-YALSA Popular PaperbacksRussia/Soviet UnionWorld War II