Hest, Amy.
When Jessie came across the sea / Amy Hest ; illustrated by P.J. Lynch. - 1st U.S. ed. - Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 1997. - [40] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher's Weekly 10/27/1997
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.
1-7 3.1
0763600946
97006250 /AC
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
PZ7.H4375 / Wf 1997
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When Jessie came across the sea / Amy Hest ; illustrated by P.J. Lynch. - 1st U.S. ed. - Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 1997. - [40] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher's Weekly 10/27/1997
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.
1-7 3.1
0763600946
97006250 /AC
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
PZ7.H4375 / Wf 1997
[E]