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Rachel (Sunfire #21)
America promised her a new life and a new love. Can she be true to her heritage and to the boy she loves? It is 1910 and 16-year-old Rachel Roth and her family are immigrants from Poland to America. When Rachel sees the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, she catches her breath. The magnificent statue seems to promise her a better life.
While life in bustling New York Cit...more
While life in bustling New York Cit...more
Mass Market Paperback, 220 pages
Published
November 1st 1986
by Scholastic
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It was my dumb choice to read this one immediately on the heels of another Schurfranz Sunfire, and the utter sameness of both books almost drove me to forfeit a PBS credit and rip this puppy up into a thousand pieces. I'm really glad I only read 2 books in this series when I was a tween, because if I had read any of Schurfranz' books - and liked them! - I'd be seriously wondering about the intellectual tastes of my younger self.
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(See my review of Amanda for my general impressions of the series.)
I've owned this one for years, which didn't really put it at the top of the list for the Great Sunfire Re-Read, but I went ahead and forced it down while waiting for some others to arrive in the mail.
Rachel Roth (formerly Rothkowski until the Ellis Island folks did a chop-chop) has just arrived in America in 1910, having fled the persecution of the Jews in Poland. The Roths have to share an apartment with their relatives, the Ros...more
I've owned this one for years, which didn't really put it at the top of the list for the Great Sunfire Re-Read, but I went ahead and forced it down while waiting for some others to arrive in the mail.
Rachel Roth (formerly Rothkowski until the Ellis Island folks did a chop-chop) has just arrived in America in 1910, having fled the persecution of the Jews in Poland. The Roths have to share an apartment with their relatives, the Ros...more
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I was obsessed with this book as a teenager because the heroine had my name. :D
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It is good story but haven't give detial about this book .. I keep this book for years.
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