Soumchi Booker Prize Nominee (2010) We find our hope where

We find our hope where they found theirs

On the point of death

but now we're writing a book together'

of its first edition in 1934

to emerging power relationships and economies

Soumchi Booker Prize Nominee (2010) We find our hope whereWhen 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