When Jessie came across the sea / Amy Hest ; illustrated by P.J. Lynch.
1997
PZ7.H4375 Wf 1997 (Mapit)
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Title
When Jessie came across the sea / Amy Hest ; illustrated by P.J. Lynch.
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Edition
1st U.S. ed.
ISBN
0763600946 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1997.
Language
English
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 x 29 cm.
Call Number
PZ7.H4375 Wf 1997
Summary
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
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