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Independence Avenue

by Eileen Bluestone Sherman

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Elias, a fourteen-year-old Russian immigrant, arrives alone in Kansas City in 1907, finding new employment and friends but also receiving bad news about his family back in Russia.

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Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)

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Original publication date: 1990
People/Characters: Elias
Important places: Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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Genres: Fiction and Literature, Kids, Tween
LCC: PZ7 .S54552 .I — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
BISAC: JUV JUVENILE FICTION Religious Jewish

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
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Published: 1990
Genres: Fiction and Literature, Kids, Tween
LCC: PZ7 .S54552 .I

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