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Watch the Stars Come Out (Picture Puffin Books)

by Riki Levinson

Mass Market Paperback, 32 pages

Published by Puffin (1995-01-01)

List Price: $6.99

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Amazon Description

In this family story-within-a-story, a little red-haired girl curls up by her grandmother to hear how, long ago, another little girl and her brother crossed the Atlantic and came to America. An ALA Notable Children's Book, American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, Parents' Choice Award for Literature, NCTE Teachers' Choice, and NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. Full color.

One Potato Review

A plainspoken history of what it was like to emigrate to this country a hundred years ago - this when the advantages that awaited such hopeful Old Worlders were not immediately apparent. Here is a grandmother telling the tale.

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