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Cover of The store that Mama built

The store that Mama built

by Robert Lehrman

Emigration and immigrationFictionJewsRetail StoresRussian AmericansChildren's fictionJews, united states, fictionEmigration and immigration, fiction

In 1917 twelve-year-old Birdie and her siblings, the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia, help their recently widowed mother run the family store, picking up where their father left off in his struggle to succeed in America.

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Book data: Open Library