Title: The girl in the torch
Description: After her father is killed in a pogrom, twelve-year-old Sarah and her mother immigrate to America--but when her mother dies before they get through Ellis Island, and the authorities want to send her back to the old country, Sarah hides in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
Subjects: Jews, Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.), Juvenile fiction, Immigrants, Fiction, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.), Emigration and immigration, Immigrant children, Orphans, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Jews, united states, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, New jersey, fiction
Places: United States