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Letters from Rifka / Karen Hesse.
LIBRA PZ7.H4364 Le 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hesse, Karen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Letters--Fiction.
- Letters.
- Ellis Island Immigration Station, New York--Fiction.
- Jewish girls--Fiction.
- Courage in girls--Fiction.
- The Teens (20th century)--Fiction.
- Jewish families--Fiction.
- Cousins--Fiction.
- Letter writing--Fiction.
- Baldness--Fiction.
- Ringworm--Fiction.
- Voyages and travels--Fiction.
- Twelve-year-old girls--Fiction.
- Jewish immigrants--Fiction.
- Russian Jews--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor)
- Physical Description:
- x, 148 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Puffin Books, 1993.
- Summary:
- In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others immigrate to America.
- Notes:
- "Ages 8-12"--Cover.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Children's Literature, Winner, 1993
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.
- ISBN:
- 0140363912
- 9780140363913
- 0440830508
- 9780440830504
- 9783125737556
- 3125737559
- OCLC:
- 27812496
- Publisher Number:
- 9780140363913
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