Lost in America

by Marilyn Sachs

Hardcover, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

T F SAC

Tags

shalom bayit - peace in the home and family relationships, immigration and emigration, New York, Holocaust, derekh eretz - doing the right thing, AR book - MG, welcoming guests - hachnasat orchim, anti-Semitism, family, friendship and loyalty - Re'ut/Dibbuk Haverim, United States - East

Genres

Collection

Teen Fiction (grades 6-12)

Publication

Roaring Brook Press (2005), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 160 pages

Description

Follows the experiences of Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, as she loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City.

Barcode

1906

Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)

Language

English

User reviews

LibraryThing member STBA
Thirty-two years after the publication of A Pocket Full of Seeds (1973), Marilyn Sachs continues the story of Nicole Nieman focusing on the end of World War II and Nicole's experiences as a new immigrant in America.
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LibraryThing member blog_gal
This book has a really good story line although it does not have much of a plot. I was entertained throughout the whole book!
LibraryThing member blog_gal
This book has a really good story line although it does not have much of a plot. I was entertained throughout the whole book!

ISBN

1596430400 / 9781596430402

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