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In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.
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Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)
Lupine Award (Honor — Juvenile/Young Adult — 2005)
West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award (Nominee — 2007-2008)
Teacher Favorites Award (2006)
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A historical novel set in the Russian Pale of Settlement in the late 1800s shows the conditions that led to massive Jewish emigration from Russia. A companion to Lasky's 1981 award-winnng book The Night Journey.
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0670059315 / 9780670059317