Sonia Levitin

Even before they immigrate to America, Hanna and her family dream of the new life they will have there. 'You will see, Hanna,' Papa said. 'There are streets of gold.' But when they arrive, they find life very different from what they had imagined. Their apartment is small and Hanna and her brothers must sleep on a mattress on the floor. Mama spends her days knitting shawls and sweaters to sell on the streets but no one stops to buy. And Papa can find...

Explains all the things that Elephant should know about how to behave when attending a birthday or other kind of party.

Having once had his heart broken, Jack keeps it in a bucket safe from harm until one day a young maiden asks him to solve a riddle which teaches him the true meaning of love.

Fifteen-year-old Marne is excited to be able to spend her summer vacation in Hawaii, not realizing the change in her lifestyle it would bring staying with her aunt, seven cousins, and uncle who is a Chasidic rabbi.

Amanda travels by stagecoach with her four siblings and her mother from Missouri to California to join her father.

Desta and the other members of her Falasha family, Jews suffering from discrimination in Ethiopia, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel. Jews suffering from discrimination in Ethiopia, Desta and the other members of her Falasha family, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel. When 12-year-old Ethiopian Jew Desta learns there are camps in Sudan where transport for Israel is waiting, she sets...

Disillusioned by her father's infidelity, Inky abandons her family to seek courage and honesty in a household operating a hot air balloon launch.

An English youth and an Indian girl are caught up in the events leading to the mysterious disappearance of the colony at Roanoke Island.

In 1938 Lisa Platt, her mother, and sisters attempt to flee Nazi Germany to Switzerland, and then to America where her father waits for them.

After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--from a general store to a school--that enables her town to prosper.