When Jessie Came Across the Sea

by Amy Hest

Other authorsP. J. Lynch (Illustrator)
Paperback, 2003

Status

Available

Call number

Picture H

Description

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.

Collection

Publication

Candlewick (2003), Edition: Reprint, 40 pages

Awards

Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2000)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2000)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 2000)
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Winner — 1997)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Picture — 2000)

Language

Original publication date

1997

Physical description

40 p.; 11 inches

ISBN

076361274X / 9780763612740

Barcode

2176
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