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Across so many seas

"Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--

Main Author: Behar, Ruth, 1956- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024
Subjects:
Jews > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Juvenile fiction.
Refugees > Juvenile fiction.
Girls > Juvenile fiction.
Intergenerational relations > Juvenile fiction.
Family life > Juvenile fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Summary: "Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--
Physical Description: 258 pages ; 22 cm
Audience: Ages 10 up.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780593323403
0593323408
Author Notes: Ruth Behar (ruthbehar.com), the Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Lucky Broken Girl and Letters from Cuba , was born in Havana, Cuba, grew up in New York, and has also lived in Spain and Mexico. Her work also includes poetry, memoir, and the acclaimed travel books An Island Called Home and Traveling Heavy . She was the first Latina to win a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, and other honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and being named a "Great Immigrant" by the Carnegie Corporation. An anthropology professor at the University of Michigan, she lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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