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32 pp.
| Kar-Ben
| October, 2006
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LibraryISBN 1-58013-157-3$17.95
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K-3
Illustrated by
Michelle Shapiro.
Based on the author's own experience, this book tells the story of a Jewish family who adopt a Vietnamese baby. While similar to other fictional stories about international adoptions, the book's religious aspects (the mikvah, or ritual bath); the Shabbat celebrations) provide a unique specificity. The gentle, colorful paintings reflect the family's joy.
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K-3
We Are America series.
These books bring the story of immigration to America up to the present, but some of the titles omit part of the story. For example, Russian covers both nineteenth-century and contemporary immigration of Soviet Jews, but Irish fails to include discussion of modern immigration. Still, the plentiful photos, stories of actual immigrants, and charts are useful features. Reading list. Glos., ind. [Review covers these We Are America titles: Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Cuban Americans, Korean Americans, and Russian Americans.]