Letters from Rifka

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Twelve year-old Rifka knows nothing about America when she flees from Russia with her family in 1919. But she dreams that she will at last be safe from harsh treatment of the Jews. Throughout her journey, She records her experiences in the form of letters to Tovah, the beloved cousin she has left behind. After her family travels to Poland, she is left behind with a friend due to a case of ringworm. Rifka must endure humiliating examinations by doctors, deadly typhus, separation from everyone, storms at sea, detainment on Ellis Island and the loss of her glorious golden hair, which refuses to grown back quickly.
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Details

Guided Reading Level
S
Accelerated Reader Level
4.2
Lexile Reading Level
660
Fiction / Nonfiction
F
Author
Hesse, Karen
Publisher
Macmillan

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