How I Learned Geography
By Uri Shulevitz · Read by Ed O'Neill
- Illustrated by
- Uri Shulevitz
- Published by
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Official grade range
- 2nd–3rd
- Official run time
- 5:00
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Why this book fits
A refugee child initially resents a father’s choice to buy a map instead of bread, then finds that the map opens an imaginative world.
Grade 2 students can hold two ideas together: the family’s material hardship and the sustaining power of imagination.
Explain how an object changes a character’s thinking even when it does not solve the immediate problem.
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Official facts verified 2026-09-21 against the Storyline Online book page. Summary, grade fit, themes, and teaching focus are independent ReadAloudKit editorial guidance.