Call Me Ruth
by Marilyn Sachs
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The daughter of a Russian immigrant family, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.Tags
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The book starts by giving the reader a brief idea of what life was like in the old country. Life on the Lower East Side---the hard work, trying to become an American, a generation gap, a workers' strike at a shirtwaist factory, making friends, understanding and appreciating the adults in a young woman's life---all are part of the rest of the book. The afterword briefly describes the actual strike described in the story.
A young immigrant, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.
Daughter of immigrant Russians in NY in 1908 has conflicted feelings about mother's labor union involvement.
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Marilyn Sachs was born Marilyn Stickle in the Bronx, New York on December 18, 1927. She graduated from Hunter College in 1949 and became a children's librarian trainee at the Brooklyn Public Library. She worked there for a decade while earning her master's of library science degree at Columbia University. She later worked part-time at the San show more Francisco Public Library before becoming a full-time author for middle grade and young adult readers in 1968. Her first novel, Amy Moves In, was published in 1964. Her other books included Veronica Ganz, The Bears' House, The Fat Girl, A Pocket Full of Seeds, and Lost in America. She was a co-editor with Ann Durell of the anthology The Big Book for Peace, which provided proceeds to peace organizations. She died on December 28, 2016 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- People/Characters
- Ruth; Mama
- Important places
- Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
- Dedication
- LJCRS Book Fair Selection 5756
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- Languages
- Dutch, English
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- Paper
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