A children’s/YA book about immigration to America for religious freedom?
Can be fiction or non-fiction, for a grade school aged child. We’d love to learn about the immigrant experience regardless of which religion they practice.
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl by Kathryn Lasky. Presents the fictional diary of a Jewish immigrant girl who arrives in NYC in the early 1900s.
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest, illustrated by P.J. Lynch. Picture book about a Jewish girl who immigrated to America from a shtetl in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century.
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Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl by Kathryn Lasky. Presents the fictional diary of a Jewish immigrant girl who arrives in NYC in the early 1900s.
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest, illustrated by P.J. Lynch. Picture book about a Jewish girl who immigrated to America from a shtetl in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century.