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Bridge to America : based on a true story / Linda Glaser.

Glaser, Linda. (Author).

Summary:
Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from their desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0618563016 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780618563012 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Based on a true story."
Citation/References Note:
Kirkus Review, October 2005.
Booklist, August 2005.
Book Links (A.L.A.), September 2005.
School Library Journal, November 2005.
Target Audience Note:
510L Lexile
5-8 Follett Library Resources.
4.7.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader MG 3.3 5 5 102169
Subject: Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
Ocean travel > Fiction.
Jews > United States > Fiction.
Jews > Poland > Fiction.
Friends of the Monroeton Library > Fiction.
Jews > Poland > Juvenile fiction.
Jews > United States > Juvenile fiction.
Ocean travel > Juvenile fiction.
Emigration and immigration > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 15 of 16 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library J GLA (Text) 33249019509565 Children's Fiction Checked Out 05/16/2024
Cambria County Library jF Gla (Text) 85131001050294 CACM Juvenile Fiction Available -
Carrolltown Public Library JUV GLA (Text) 31814230509173 CARM Juvenile Fiction Available -
Cresson Public Library JF Gla (Text) 31814610021617 CRSM Juvenile Fiction Available -
Ebensburg Public Library JF GLA (Text) 31814700696476 EBNM Juvenile Fiction Available -
Hastings Public Library JF GLA (Text) 31814400644891 HSTM Juvenile Fiction Available -
Hollidaysburg Area Public Library JF Gla 2005 (Text)
Presented by: Olivia Carniglia. [ KE 10/10/2016 @ BC_HOL ]
Donated: Olivia Carniglia.
10HOL00039225+ Juvenile Fiction Available -
Lackawanna County Children's Library JUV GLASER (Text) 50686014156165 Children's Storage Available -
Lilly Washington Public Library JG (Text) 31814800564301 LLWM Juvenile Fiction Available -
Nanty Glo Public Library J Gla (Text) 31815190009393 NGLM Juvenile Fiction Available -


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