Letters from Rifka /

Letters from Rifka /

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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 emigrate to America.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hesse, Karen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Square Fish, 2009
Edition:1st Square Fish ed.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
Jews > Fiction.
Letters > Fiction.
Emigration and immigration > Juvenile fiction.
Jews > Juvenile fiction.
Letters > Juvenile fiction.
Description
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 emigrate to America.
Item Description:"Originally published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company"--Title page verso.
Includes (pages [149 -162]) "Questions for the author" and an excerpt from Karen Hesse's: Brooklyn Bridge.
Physical Description:x, 148 pages ; 20 cm.
Audience:RL5.
008-012.
Awards:National Jewish Book Award, 1993
Christopher Medal, 1993
ISBN:0312535619 (pbk.)
9780312535612 (pbk.)
1448731259 (Paw Prints library binding)
9781448731251 (Paw Prints library binding)