The Girl in the Torch
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Call Number: Y Fiction / Sharenow, Rob
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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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.
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super great submitted by xijin Hiraga on June 11, 2022, 5:26pm The story is about a girl who who tries to move to America, but she is sent home on a boat. Though, she jumps off the boat and manages to swim back to land. But now, how will she survive? She doesn't have mother any more, because she died of an illness on the ship.
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 284 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062227959
0062227955
SUBJECTS
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Fiction.
Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Jews -- Fiction.