Letters from Rifka
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Letters from Rifka
By Karen HesseMama lay in a narrow bed, as white as the sheet on top of her. Everything about Mama was white except her black hair. Her hair was like a dark stain on the hospital linens and her eyes remained closed, her thick lashes resting on white ...
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Letters from Rifka
By Karen HessePapa wrote about Ellis Island in his letters . He wrote that at Ellis Island you are neither in nor out of America . Ellis Island is a line separating my future from my past . Until I cross that line , I am still homeless , still an ...
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Letters from Rifka
By Karen HesseAddressing 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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Letters from Rifka: Novel-Ties Study Guide
By Mary DennisUse Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided reading program.
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Letters from Rifka
By Karen HesseIn letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
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Letters from Rifka
By Karen HesseRifka's family had to leave her behind. will she ever see them again?
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Letters from Rifka
By Karen Hesse"In letters to her cousin back 'home' in Russia, 12-year-old Rifka tells of her journey to America in 1919, from the dangerous escape over the border through Europe and across the sea to the new country."--"Booklist."