Hello, America
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Published: February 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780689867552
Subjects: Jackson, Livia Bitton; New York; History - United States/20th Century; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Refugees, German; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Young Adult Biography; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Jews; Holocaust survivors; Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage; Social Issues - Emigration & Immigration; Juvenile Nonfiction / Girls & Women; Biography & Autobiography - General; New York (State); Biography
First sentence: The day breaks as the SS General Stuart rapidly slices through the mist toward New York Harbor.
Description: The author tells the story of how she and her mother came to New York City in 1951 to try to leave the horrors of the Holocaust behind, but found it harder than they expected to fit into this "new world."