Five Stories

by Ellen Weinstein

Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City.

Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a steamship from Russia in the 1910s. Jenny writes letters in Yiddish to her grandmother, while practicing her English in her new neighborhood. By the 1930s, when Anna Cozzi and her Italian family move into the building, Jenny has become a teacher in Anna's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823451674
• ISBN13: 9780823451678
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3