When Jessie Came Across the Sea cover

When Jessie Came Across the Sea

Author: Hest, Amy

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 3.2
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 1836
Points per Word 0.000272
Page Count 40
Points per Page 0.0125

Description

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.