cover image Hello, America

Hello, America

Livia Bitton-Jackson, Livia Bitton Jackson. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, $16.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-689-86755-2

Those who were riveted by I Have Lived a Thousand Years and My Bridges of Hope, which chronicled Livia Bitton-Jackson's personal story of being imprisoned in Auschwitz at age 13, will cheer the final book of her trilogy, Hello, America. Readers watch Elli and her mother depart Europe for Brooklyn in 1951; the author brings equal insight to the adjustments required to settle into new surroundings, as well as to more universal experiences such as finding a job and falling in love. .