The World Outside

By Eva Wiseman and Tricia Levenseller

17-year-old Chanie Altman lives the protected life of a Hasidic girl in Brooklyn, New York in 1991. Religion is the most important aspect of her life, and she is expected to attend a seminary and to marry as soon as she graduates from high school. But Chanie has a beautiful voice and dreams of becoming an opera singer - a profession forbidden to a Hasidic girl. When she meets David, a non-Hasidic Jewish boy, he opens the portals to the world outside her fundamentalist community. Then the Crown Heights riots break out - will Chanie stay at fight or follow her dreams?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887769810
• ISBN13: 9780887769818
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher