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In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
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Karen S. Hesse (born August 29, 1952) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings.She won the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (Scholastic, 1997) .Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) ], via Wikimedia Commons.
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