Letters from Rifka
 Letters From Rifka is a children's historical novel by Karen Hesse published by Holt in 1992. It features a Jewish family's emigration from Russia in 1919 to Belgium and ultimately to the U.S. from the perspective of daughter Rifka based on the personal account by Hesse's great-aunt Lucille Avrutin.Hesse and Letters won the 2012 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.