Title: Out of Many Waters (American History Series for Young People)
First published: October 1999
Description: Kidnapped from their parents during the Portuguese Inquisition and sent to work as slaves at a monastery in Brazil, two Jewish sisters attempt to make their way back to Europe to find their parents, but instead one becomes part of a group founding the first Jewish settlement in the United States.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Jews, Inquisition, Juvenile fiction, Jews -- Brazil -- History -- Fiction, Brazil, Inquisition -- Brazil, pirates, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, historical, general, Missouri, fiction
Places: Brazil, United States, New Amsterdam
Time periods: 1654
LC classification: PZ7.G834 Ou 1988