Hest, A. (1997). When Jessie came across the sea. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.
What would you do if you were told that you were leaving your home to live with a woman you had never met in a country you had never seen? That's what happens to a young thirteen year-old girl, named Jessie, in When Jessie Came Across the Sea.
Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor Jewish village. The rabbi in the village is given a ticket to America and decides that Jessie will travel to New York City and live with his sister-in-law. Jessie travels on a boat to Ellis Island and meets a young boy named Lou. Not long after Jessie arrives in New York, she learns English and becomes a success in a dress shop. One day Jessie receives a letter from her grandmother. What happens to Jessie's grandmother? What happens to Lou? Find out in Amy Hest's wonderful picture book, When Jessie Came Across the Sea.
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