The girl in the torch / Robert Sharenow.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: 284 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0062227955 (hardcover)
- 9780062227959 (hardcover)
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrant children -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
- Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Sharenow Rob | Available | 33111008012771 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets True Grit in this heartfelt novel of resilience, hope, and discovering a family where you least expect it, from award-winning author Robert Sharenow.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, thousands of immigrants are arriving in the promised land of New York City. Twelve-year-old Sarah has always dreamed of America, a land of freedom and possibility. In her small village she stares at a postcard of the Statue of Liberty and imagines the Lady beckoning to her. When Sarah and her mother finally journey across the Atlantic, though, tragedy strikes--and Sarah finds herself being sent back before she even sets foot in the country.
Yet just as Sarah is ushered onto the boat that will send her away from the land of her dreams, she makes a life-or-death decision. She daringly jumps off the back of the boat and swims as hard as she can toward the Lady's island and a new life.
Her leap of faith leads her to an unbelievable hiding place: the Statue of Liberty itself. Now Sarah must find a way to Manhattan while avoiding the night watchman and scavenging enough food to survive. When a surprising ally helps bring her to the city, Sarah finds herself facing new dangers and a life on her own. Will she ever find a true home in America?
After her father is killed in a pogrom, twelve-year-old Sarah and her mother immigrate to America--but when her mother dies before they get through Ellis Island, and the authorities want to send her back to the old country, Sarah hides in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
Ages 8-12.