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Scholastic
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The daughter of a Russian immigrant family, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.
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LibraryThing member STBA
A young immigrant, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.
LibraryThing member raizel
The book starts by giving the reader a brief idea of what life was like in the old country. Life on the Lower East Side---the hard work, trying to become an American, a generation gap, a workers' strike at a shirtwaist factory, making friends, understanding and appreciating the adults in a young
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woman's life---all are part of the rest of the book. The afterword briefly describes the actual strike described in the story. Show Less
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Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 1986)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1985)
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Winner — 1982)
Other editions
Call Me Ruth by Marilyn Sachs (Hardcover)