St. Thomas Becket Academy & High School Library

When Jessie came across the sea /

Hest, Amy.

When Jessie came across the sea / Amy Hest ; illustrated by P.J. Lynch. - 1st U.S. ed. - Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 1997. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 29 cm.

A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.

0763600946 (hc : alk. paper)

97006250


Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.

PZ7.H4375 / Wf 1997