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Author:

Hesse, Karen.

Title:

Letters from Rifka / Karen Hesse.

Edition:

1st Square Fish ed.

Publisher:

Square Fish/Holt,

Copyright Date:

2009, c1992

Description:

x, 148 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Juvenile fiction.
Letters--Juvenile fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
Letters--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Immigration and emigration--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
Letters--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

Rifka, a young Jewish girl, writes to her cousin, chronicling her family's experiences fleeing Russia in 1919, and her own trials after being left in Belgium on her own while the others emigrate to America.

Indexed by:

Wilson's Children, October 2006
Wilson's Junior High School, November 2005
School Library Journal starred, June 2010
Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), August 2009
School Library Journal, September 1997
Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2007
Child Study Children's Book Committee, November 2008
Library Journal Starred, November 2008
Publisher's Weekly, April 2009
Teacher Librarian, April 2003
Wilson's Children
Wilson's Junior High School
School Library Journal starred

ISBN:

0329780417
9780329780418 (Follett bdg.)
0312535619
9780312535612 (pbk.)

Locations:

XJPC657 -- Malvern Public Library (Malvern)