Nobody told me anything -- All I could see was the blue -- But I wanted to go to the zoo -- Seasick -- This is "goodbye" -- Willkommen in Amerika -- You bathe on Tuesdays and Thursdays -- Baby bear's chair -- Step on a crack -- Don't call me Julius! -- Hankus pankus -- I took you in -- Change! -- Labeled -- What did you expect? -- We must live

In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II

810L

A Junior Library Guild selection