Letters from Rifka
By Karen Hesse
1992
First Published
3.92
Average Rating
148
Number of Pages
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
Avg Rating
3.92
Number of Ratings
11,056
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Karen Hesse
Author · 28 books
Karen Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. Her novel Out of the Dust was the winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. In 2002, Hesse was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. For more information, please see http://us.macmillan.com/author/karenh...
