A house of tailors

Type

Book

Authors

Giff, Patricia Reilly

ISBN 13

9780385730662

Tags

Jefferson Cup Award, Aunts and uncles, cousins, dressmakers, fires, German Americans, German people in Australia, Immigrants, Immigration and emigration, Personal Letters, seamstresses, Sewing, Smallpox, Teenage immigrants, Thirteen-year-old girls

Abstract

When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.

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