Authors: Zlata Filipovic
Zlata's Diary (19 page)
3) Zlata celebrates her fifth birthday with friends.
4) At eight, a conscientious music student, she plays the piano and sings.
5)
.
Zlata is in the fifth grade enjoying school before bombs start falling on Sarajevo.
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Spring 1991.
Zlata is in the fifth grade enjoying school before bombs start falling on Sarajevo.
6) War breaks out in Sarajevo. In the beginning, the arrival of blue berets brought hope.
7) Cooking is quite an achievement without electricity. It is sometimes necessary to search the neighborhood to find an oven. Zlata's mother proudly shows off the bread made in a pressure cooker.
8) Zlata writes at her desk even as the sound of machine guns echoes from the hills.
9)
Zlata carries water back to the house
.
Zlata carries water back to the house
.
10)
Her father also helps her
as
they walk through the dangerous streets.
Her father also helps her
as
they walk through the dangerous streets.
12) Zlata, who loves books, reads by candlelight.
14) Zlata with her mother and father. “What is this war doing to my parents? They don't look like my Mommy and Daddy anymore. ”
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