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Meyer, Susan Lynn
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Fiction
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2013
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en-ca
โ 203 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Skating with the Statue of Liberty
โ Scribed by Meyer, Susan Lynn
- Book ID
- 109177467
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 944 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385741552
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"This rich story reminds us that America can be at its best as a melting pot. A page-turner for all the right reasons."-- VINCE VAWTER, Newbery Honor-winning author of Paperboy **
In this gripping and poignant companion to Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner Black Radishes, Gustave faces racism and anti-Semitism in New York City during World War II, but ultimately finds friendship and hope.**
It is January 1942, and Gustave, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy, has made it to America at last. After escaping with his family from Nazi-occupied France, after traveling through Spain and Portugal and across the Atlantic Ocean, he no longer has to worry about being captured by the Germans. But life is not easy in America, either.
Gustave feels out of place in New York. His clothes are all wrong, he can barely speak English, and he is worried about his best friend, Marcel, who is in grave danger back in France. Then there is September Rose, the...
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