Soumchi Booker Prize Nominee (2010) Gerard Dillon

Gerard Dillon

including such famous brands as Champagne Veuve Clicquot and Liberty

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of its first edition in 1934

When Steelheart came to Chicago

Soumchi Booker Prize Nominee (2010) Gerard DillonWhen Soumchi, an eleven year old boy growing up in British occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyedeven if it is a girl's bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighborhood, he dreams of riding far away from them, out of the city and across the desert, toward the heart of Africa. But first he wants to show his new prize to his friend Aldo