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Letters from Rifka
Title:
Letters from Rifka
JLCTITLE245:
Karen Hesse.
Personal Author:
Hesse, Karen, author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt and Company, [1992]
Physical Description:
x, 148 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780805019643
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
660 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.2 4.0 8533.

Reading Counts RC 3-5 5.1 6 Quiz: 06812 Guided reading level: S.

Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 4.2 4 Quiz 8533 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available, literary skills quiz available.
Subject Term:
Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.

Jews -- Juvenile fiction.

Letters -- Juvenile fiction.

Jewish girls -- Juvenile fiction.

Courage -- Juvenile fiction.

Jewish families -- Juvenile fiction.

Cousins -- Juvenile fiction.

Jews, Russian -- Juvenile fiction.

Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.

Jews -- Fiction.

Letters -- Fiction.

Ellis Island Immigration Station, New York -- Fiction.

Jewish girls -- Fiction.

Courage in girls -- Fiction.

The Teens (20th century) -- Fiction.

Jewish families -- Fiction.

Cousins -- Fiction.

Letter writing -- Fiction.

Baldness -- Fiction.

Ringworm -- Fiction.

Voyages and travels -- Fiction.

Twelve-year-old girls -- Fiction.

Jewish immigrants -- Fiction.

Jews, Russian -- Fiction.

INNIGRATION ANDEMIGRATION -- FICTION/JEWS -- FICTION.
Geographic Term:
Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Epistolary fiction, American.

Epistolary fiction.
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