Good-Bye to the Trees

by Vicky Shiefman

Despite the excitement and confusion of her new life in America, thirteen-year-old Fagel can't forget the family she left behind in Russia. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689318065
• ISBN13: 9780689318061
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Immigrants

I really liked this book as I feel it is a good relection of the immigrant experience. I thought the characters were very interesting. Especially the main character who presents her experience very personally but in a way that is also universal. I must disagree with the reviewer who felt that characters who appear at the beginning of the book don't get developed. Immigrants simply lose a lot (including people) by emmigrating and the book relects this. Don't get me wrong, I am REALLY glad that my grandparents came to America, but something is inevitably lost by leaving home and moving on. I think everyone can relate to that, even if they don't leave their homeland. We are all immigrants in some way and I think this book shows that experience in a compelling fashion.