Title: Miriam's Journey
Description: Ten-year-old Miriam Bloom is excited to learn that she and her family are leaving their shtetl in Russia to move to America, but she could never predict the challenges her family would encounter along their journey and how Jewish values restore hope and strength to her family.
Subjects: Jews, History, Juvenile fiction, Immigrants, Emigration and immigration, Russian Americans, Russian Jews, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)