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When twelve‑year‑old Hannah receives a diary for her tenth birthday, she decides to turn its pages into a true record of her life in a Russian shtetl and the extraordinary journey her family undertakes to reach America. The book captures the hopes, fears, and daily realities of a Jewish immigrant family as they leave familiar surroundings for an uncertain future in the United States.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Marissa Moss
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