Title: The life and opinions of Amy Finawitz, eighth grader
Description: Through emails, one-act plays, and Chinese-style fortunes, Amy keeps her best friend informed as her elderly neighbor, Miss Sophia, invites herself and her nephew Beryl, a Hassidic Jew, to help Amy with a school assignment that takes them across New York City.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations, Jews, Schools, Immigrants, Friendship, Fiction, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Humorous stories, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Juvenile fiction, Friendship in adolescence, Hasidism
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York