When Jessie came across the sea
By: Amy Hest ; illustrated by P.J. Lynch.
Contributors: Lynch, Patrick James, ill.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press; Candlewick
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Fiction; Jews -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Grandmothers -- 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.