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“Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul.”—The New York Times
All beginnings are hard—that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, horrifying...
All beginnings are hard—that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, horrifying...
3) Rodzina
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
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Windy City saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"She promised a dying father she would keep his daughter safe. She can't fail now. The one thing Sylvie Townsend wants most is what she feared she would never have - a family of her own. But taking in Polish immigrant Rose Dabrowski to raise and love quells those fears - until seventeen-year-old Rose goes missing at the World's Fair, and Sylvie's life unravels. With nowhere else to turn, Sylvie seeks help from her boarder and Rose's violin instructor,...
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Journey to America volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Jam Books
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
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Berkley Jam pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Young Aniela Kaminski, a Christian girl whose family is sympathetic to the Jews, finds a happy and safe life in Chicago after fleeing the Nazis in Poland, but cannot help pondering the fate of her old friends.
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