- Fiction, History, Jews, Juvenile fiction
Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great- grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories.
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Earnest, grave, resolved and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Kathryn Lasky, Trina Schart Hyman
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Peter Smith Pub Inc, Penguin Publishing Group, F. Warne
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780670809356
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First sentence
“"CAN I touch your cheek, Nana Sashie?"”
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