Status
Available
Call number
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
Subjects
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)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Christopher Award (1998)
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration (Winner — 1997)
Language
Original publication date
1997
Physical description
40 p.; 11 inches
ISBN
076361274X / 9780763612740