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.

Related: Belgium, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Russia, United States

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• ISBN: 9780440830504
• Author: Hesse, Karen
• Published: 1992, Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Themes: Coming of age, Courage, Emigration and immigration, Escape, Holocaust, Jew, Journey, Poetry, World War II
• Descriptors: Belgium, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Russia, United States
• No. of pages: 148