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Five Stories

By Ellen Weinstein

By Ellen Weinstein

By Ellen Weinstein

By Ellen Weinstein

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Hardcover $18.99

Apr 23, 2024 | ISBN 9780823451678 | 4-8 years

Ebook $11.99

Apr 23, 2024 | ISBN 9780823457748 | 4-8 years

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    About Five Stories

    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 school. Then José Marte moves in during the 1960s, Maria Torres in the 1980s, and Wei Yei in the Lower East Side of today.

    Perfect for early elementary students, this cross section of American history celebrates themany diverse cultures that make up our nation—from the food we eat, to the ways we worship,and the families we love.

    A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

    About Five Stories

    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 school. Then José Marte moves in during the 1960s, Maria Torres in the 1980s, and Wei Yei in the Lower East Side of today.

    Perfect for early elementary students, this cross section of American history celebrates themany diverse cultures that make up our nation—from the food we eat, to the ways we worship,and the families we love.

    A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Picture Books

    Hardcover | $18.99
    Published by Holiday House
    Apr 23, 2024 | 48 Pages | 8-1/4 x 11 | 4-8 years | ISBN 9780823451678

    Category: Children’s Books

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Holiday House
    Apr 23, 2024 | 48 Pages | 8-1/4 x 11 | 4-8 years | ISBN 9780823457748

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    Praise

    ★ “This is a wonderful look at how immigrants have changed a community for the better. It would be an excellent book for a lesson on how communities evolve over time. A first choice for libraries needing books about communities, immigration, and changes over time.”—School Library Journal, Starred Review

    “[A] vibrant celebration of immigrants and the multicultural richness of New York City.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

    “Tantalizing glimpses of a diverse neighborhood’s cultures and origins, with insight into the commonality that underlies them.”—Kirkus Reviews

    “Wein­stein has dis­tilled the essence of New York city life, and has also giv­en five indi­vid­ual sto­ries their own unique space.”—Jewish Book Council

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