Once I Was a Plum Tree
1980
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3.50
Average Rating
160
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Once Gerry's family name Pflaumenbaum, which means "plum tree" in German. Now, it's just plain flam, which means nothing at all. "What religion are you?" is the worst thing anyone could ask ten-year-old Geraldine Flam. Gerry, growing up in the Bronx just after the Second World War, doesn't have any religion at all." We are assimilated, " Gerry's father tells her. But Gerry wants more. Here's a funny and warm story about belonging—to a particular community and to the world.
Avg Rating
3.50
Number of Ratings
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Author
Johanna Hurwitz
Author · 54 books
Johanna Hurwitz is an American author of more than sixty children's books. She has sold millions of books in many different languages. Hurwitz graduated from Queens College, New York with a degree in English and Columbia University with a master's in library science.
