Exiled down under
By: Miriam Szokovski
Publisher: Israel Bookshop; Israel Book ,Shop
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lakewood, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781600910494
Subjects: Jewish girls; Juvenile fiction; Filles juives; Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Description: Ester Levy is an ordinary eleven-year-old girl growing up in eighteenth century England when her life changes suddenly and drastically. While doing some errands for her mother, Ester is wrongly accused of shoplifting and must serve her sentence of hard labour in the far away, odd country of Australia. Everything is so strange to Ester there, from the animals to the plants, and most especially, to the eccentric couple whom she must serve. Ester is not the first family member to be wrenched away from home; her father went missing on a voyage several years before. Will the Levy family ever be reunited? How can Ester maintain her Yiddishkeit in such a foreign, bizarre place?
Notes: At head of title: Timeframes.