Books : Letters from Rifka
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780312535612
ISBN: 0312535619
Label: Square Fish
Manufacturer: Square Fish
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: January 06, 2009
Publisher: Square Fish
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: January 06, 2009
Sales Rank: 202233
Studio: Square Fish
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"In letters to her cousin back 'home' in Russia, 12-year-old Rifka tells of her journey to America in 1919, from the dangerous escape over the border through Europe and across the sea to the new country."--Booklist.
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Rifka and her family are forced to flee their home in Russia because of religious persecution. After battling Typhus in Poland, Rifka contracts ringworm and must be left behind as her family continues ahead to America. This well-written (in diary-form) young adult novel is the coming-of-age tale of a Jewish immigrant and her journey through Ellis Island and into adulthood. Grade: B
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not too graphic and that is the way I like it. I read this book to my children for our unit study and they liked it also. There are plenty of books out there that do their share of describing and I like those too but sometimes we just need to know there a few happy endings and this one is one of those books.
Rifka and her family set out on a trip to leave their homeland that hates them to a place called America. Rifka ends up being left behind for health reasons and so starts her own journey to America. She grows and has matured by the time she makes it to Ellis Island. Her family reunion is a good one and the very last surprise is a sweet addition to the ending!
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At 12, Rifka's had quite a year. She, her parents and two older brothers fled Russia, where they were victimized because they were Jewish. Their goal is to immigrate into America, where they will join Rifka's two eldest brothers.
Yet even after almost getting killed during the initial escape, there are still obstacles to overcome. While in Poland, the entire family gets typhoid, which delays their progress. Then, when it seems they will finally get to board a ship, it's discovered that Rifka has ringworm and will have to stay behind until it clears.
Devastated, Rifka knows she has no choice but to stay brave and hopeful. She spends almost a year in Belgium with a kind elderly couple who treat her like a daughter. Still, Rifka yearns to be reunited with her family. She notes her life in letter format to her cousin Tovah, back home...scribbling along the back pages of a Pushkin book, which she plans to mail back as soon as she's in America.
But even after Rifka's given the OK to leave the country, the folks at Ellis Island aren't so sure about letting her in. Although Rifka doesn't have any sign of ringworm anymore, her hair stubbornly refuses to grow back. Ultimately, she's caught in the worst of hells...so close to her family, yet unable to rejoin them.
This book provides a fascinating look at 1920s immigration, through the eyes of a plucky adolescent. Readers will commiserate with Rifka, and heartily wish her dreams to be realized.
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Letters From Rifka. About a girl trying to get toAmerica their are some speed bumps in the road. She gets sick and some people die. But she finally gets a ride to America but she has to go to a hospital before she can go to her family. And to pass the time she teaches a boy to read,and takes care of a baby with typhus because she already had it and can't get it again.
The message in this book is to Never Give Up Hope even when things get tough. People should be like Rifka and be brave when bad things happen to good people.I connect with this book because her life is hard and my life is hard too.I have a great opinion of this book.
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this book describe vividly a child experience through the immigration process and it gives the personal and human point of view of the dramatic process most of us or our families had experiences, very improtant to all scholars
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