Title: A house of tailors
Description: When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
Subjects: History, German Americans, Uncles, Emigration and immigration, Juvenile fiction, Sewing, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction, Tailors, fiction
Places: Brooklyn, New York (State), Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), New York
Time periods: 19th century