Letters from Rifka
- ISBN-10
- 0805019642
- ISBN-13
- 9780805019643
- Series
- Letters from Rifka
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 148
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-07-15
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Karen Hesse
Description
Addressing her journal entries to the cousin she left behind, Rifka recounts her flight from the pogroms of 1919 Russia, enduring sickness, separation from her family, and a voyage across the Atlantic.
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