Letters from Rifka

I read Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse. The main characters are Rifka, Mama and Papa, Tovah (her cousin), Saul and Nathan (her brothers). The setting is mostly on different forms of travel (boats, trains, ect.) and in different countries (Germany, Poland, Russia and America). The plot is that Rifka and her family are trying to get to the U.S but Rifka gets typhus and then everyone gets it and then Rifka gets ringworm so her family has to leave her in Antwerp while they go on to the U.S and then she finally is able to leave Europe.
I think this is a really good book. It tells a lot about the struggles immigrants sometimes have to go through and it is incredibly informative. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to learn about the struggles of immigrating and being a refuge.

I think letters from Rifka is a really wonderful and well written book. A really good part in the book is when Rifka gets ringworm,she has to stay in belguim while her parens go to america.Rifka learns the people in Belgium are a whole lot nicer than in Russia.Finally she goes to America to be with her family and they all live a very happy life.

I think The book "Letters From Rifka" is an excellent book and it has really captured the real mind and thoughts of a child going through such a very hard time in their life. It is beautifully written and the type of style Karen Hesse is writing in is extraordinary. Personally I would give it 5 stars, two thumbs up, etc.

Letters from Rifka is a wonderful book and one of the best I've read all year. I love how it tells the story of her immigrating to America through letters. Rifka is a young, brave, jewish girl escaping from Russia trying to get to America with her family putting aside hardships as she captures herself in writing.

Letters from Rifka was about a girl named Rifka who was a jewish 12 year old who had to help her family make it to America. She was stuck in Russia trying to make it to Poland. This was at the time of the holicoast. She had to pretend to be Russian to help her family board the trains. She risked her own life.

During the ride she gets a deadly disease that ends her journey to America and for her family. Will her family and herself survive from the deadly disease?? Will she ever make it to america?? Read the book to find out!!

Letters from Rifka was a book the I would tell anyone to read who is over the age of 9, and who understands the holicost. This book was a book that I couldn't put down!!! Please read this book asp!!!

Letters shows about the hardships of being the victim of war. Leaving all you know and love because of your religion or race. It takes a while to get interesting but once it does you can't put it down. Rifka grows up while traveling to America which is cool. Awesome book!! Great for girls (and guys) 10-13.

If you like diary type books you will love Letters from Rifka. It is an informational yet page-turning, fun book. The author describes the main character, Rifka's, emotions and thoughts very well. You feel, as you read the book, that you become a part of Rifka. You are absorbed into a journey of struggle,happiness, and sorrow as Rifka journies her way to America. I recommend this book to girls of all ages. Some books make World War 2 seem boring but this book is excellant. By having a teenage girl as the main character it makes the book a lot easier for a teenager to read because they are able to see what is going on from a understandable point of view.

This is a fantastic book. Wonderfuly writen and is great to read over and over. I have never read such a great book before. I have rekamended this book to friends and would again in a minute. I wish this book would be on every schools summer reading list.

What a fantastic book! I have never read anything like it!
I brought this book with me on my vacation to Flordia. When I opened the book, I swear, I couldn't put it down! I just read it cover to cover...I totally lost track of the time!
It's a great holocaust book for pre-teens...it's timeless! I DEFINITELY RECCOMEND THIS NOVEL TO YOU!

The Book Letters from Rifka is a really good book.The only part I didn't like was that they called the little boy a Russian peasent. Everyother part was really good! I would recomend this book for 9-12 year olds.

Letters From Rifka is an extraordinary book. It is about this girl named Rifka, she is 12 yrs. old. Rifka and her family are fleeing from Russia to America in 1919.The main characters are her brothers Saul and Nathan, Papa, Mama, Tahova, Rifka and Sister Katrina. They are going to America on a train.
Rifka writes letters in the margins of her favorite book her mom got her called Puskin. Tahova, her cousin still in Russia, is the person she is writing too in the book. Rifka and Tahova have a very serious relationship, even though Rifka knows that Tahova will never get her letters she insists on writing to him. In the letters she writes, she talks about the illnesses that she got along the way and the things she had to do to get to America.
My opinion about this book is very strong because it teaches a lot about how cruel the Germans were to the Jewish people. I also like this book because it shows you that just because you have a different religion doesn't mean that you are different from anybody else. Does Rifka make it to America is still a mystery, but read this book and you will find out.

this book describe vividly a child experience through the immigration process and it gives the personal and human point of view of the dramatic process most of us or our families had experiences, very improtant to all scholars

Letters From Rifka by Karen Hesse is a book about a 12 year old girl, Rifka's journey from Russia to Ellis Island in New York. This book is writtin in a series of letters to Rifka's cousin Tovah. Even though it has historical information and gives you information about immigrants trip to America, it isn't a book i would reccomend. It has no funny parts in it and unless you are serious about finding information you probably won't be interested in this book.