Lonek's Journey: The True Story of a Boy's Escape to Freedom

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Acknowledgments You might think that writing a book involves only one person person the writer But that is not the case A great many people are involved in giving birth to a book Probably the most important person is Lonek This book is about him I spent many hours listening to him tell me about his life Then I wrote a book about his most unusual adventures and called it Escape via Siberia The publisher of that book thought that the story of Lonek would make a wonderful book for children children and suggested I contact Star Bright Books a publishing company that creates beautiful and interesting books for children children The publisher of Star Bright Books agreed and that made it possible for the book to reach you the reader While I was writing this book I thought it would be a good idea to check if young people really would find the story interesting interesting So I turned to Laura Conway an English teacher at The Louis Armstrong Middle School in New York City She gave a copy of the manuscript to each of the following children in her class Alexandra Bahamon Grace Bang Samantha Barriento Alexander Dediashvili Karla Gomez Jaimee Grant Jacob Nieves Alexander Pangourelias Shamiur Rahman Alif Alam and Ryu Gregory In addition Jonathan and Louden Pluta the nephews of my neighbor also read the manuscript These children evaluated and commented on each chapter chapter Their enthusiastic thoughtful feedback proved that the book would be interesting and exciting for children Here are 8