When Jessie Came Across the Sea
by Hest, Amy
TravelSydney Taylor Award/HonorKate Greenaway Medal/Honor BookIRA Children's & Young Adult's Book AwarChristopher AwardTailor/SeamstressGrandparentsNCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies
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AR Book Level
3.2
AR Points
0.5
Word Count
1,836
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
17745 EN
About this book
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to the United States where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring her grandmother to the United States.