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Author Hest, Amy.

Title When Jessie came across the sea / Amy Hest ; illustrated by P.J. Lynch.

Edition First U.S. edition.
Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1997.
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Juvenile Easy Fiction  E HES    AVAILABLE
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Description 39 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Summary A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
Subject Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
Jews -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Added Author Lynch, Patrick James, illustrator.
ISBN 0763600946
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