Letters From Rifka

Puffin (Nov 01, 1993)

9780140363913

| Paperback

160 pages | 128 x 199 mm | English

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LC Classification PZ7.H4364 .Le 1993

LC Control No. 93007486

Genre

General Fiction
Historical
Kids (12 & Under)
Kids: Middle Grade

Subject

Emigration And Immigration - Fiction
Emigration And Immigration/ Fiction
Jews/ Fiction
Letters - Fiction
Letters/ Fiction

Plot

Rifka dreams of a life in America, but she may never get there.Rifka and her family have fled Russia's brutal treatment of the Jews for a new life in America. But the path to freedom is full of terrible obstacles - the humiliating scrutiny of doctors and soldiers, and deadly typhus that strikes the entire family. Finally, when it seems that they have triumphed over every possible hardship, the doctors refuse to let Rifka board the ship to America - and her family must leave without her...

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