The girl in the torch
By: Robert Sharenow
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780062227959
Subjects: Jews; Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.); Juvenile fiction; Immigrants; Fiction; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.); Emigration and immigration; Immigrant children; Orphans
Description: After her father is killed in a pogrom, twelve-year-old Sarah and her mother immigrate to America--but when her mother dies before they get through Ellis Island, and the authorities want to send her back to the old country, Sarah hides in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.