Title: Leaving for America
Description: The author recalls her early years in a small Jewish town in western Russia and the last days there as she and her mother prepare to join her father in the United States.
Subjects: Biography, Emigration and immigration, Jews, Juvenile literature, Immigrants, Children's fiction, America, discovery and exploration, fiction
Places: Belarus, Soviet Union, United States, Wysokie, Wysokie (Belarus)
People: Roslyn Bresnick-Perry