Puppet

by Eva Wiseman

Book Overview

A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.

The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the 'blood libel' -- the centuries-old calumny that Jews murder Christian children for their blood. A fourteen-year-old Jewish boy named Morris Scharf becomes the star witness of corrupt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770492968
• ISBN13: 9781770492967
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher