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In this sequel to A Pocket Full of Seeds, Nicole leaves France to move to America after learning that her entire family died in Auschwitz. Her Americanized cousins are unsympathetic and manipulative, and she struggles with loneliness and the language, but eventually the spirited teenager finds her way. Once past the rushed beginning, readers will find Nicole's moving story engrossing.