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Name: Letters from Rifka

Author: Karen Hesse
Year: 1992
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Genres/categories: Young adult, Award winners, Children

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ISBN:
9780134375021
9780618062812
9780785720331
0134375025
0618062815
0785720332
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature in 1993.
Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers in 1992.

In 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 immigrate to America.
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