When Jessie came across the sea
By: Amy Hest ; illustrated by P.J. Lynch.
Contributors: Lynch, Patrick James.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction; Jews -- Juvenile fiction; Orphans -- Juvenile fiction; Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
Notes: Literacy support for new adult readers.