A house of tailors
By: Patricia Reilly Giff.
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Fiction; German Americans -- Fiction; Sewing -- Fiction; Uncles -- Fiction; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.