Karen Hesse
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 148 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others immigrate to America.
3) Witness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates eight incidents from throughout the history of Judaism, each followed by a free-verse poem, told in the voice of a child from that time, who is celebrating one night of Hanukkah and the resilience of the Jewish people.
5) Night job
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When the sun sets, Dad's job as a school custodian is just beginning. What is it like to work on a Friday night while the rest of the city is asleep? There's the smell of lilacs in the night air, the dusky highway in the moonlight, and glimpses of shy nighttime animals to make the dark magical. Shooting baskets in the half-lit gym, sweeping the stage with the game on the radio, and reading out loud to his father in the library all help the boy's time...