When Jessie came across the sea
About this book
When a young girl from a poor eastern European village learns that she must leave her beloved grandmother for a new life - and a new love - in America, they both feel that their hearts will break. The sure and inspired narrative by award-winning author Amy Hest is paired with paintings by P.J. Lynch that glow with warmth and carefully observed detail, creating an unforgettable tribute to the immigrant experience. - Publisher.
Subjects
- accelerated reader
- children's fiction
- children's stories, english
- emigration and immigration
- emigration and immigration, fiction
- fiction
- girls, fiction
- grandmothers
- immigration and emigration
- jews
- jews, fiction
- jews, new york (state), new york, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- orphans
- picture books for children
- spanish language materials