Is it night or day?

Description:

In 1938, Edit Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.

subjects: Jewish refugees,  Jews,  Fiction,  Rescue,  World War, 1939-1945,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  History,  Juvenile fiction,  Children's fiction,  Refugees, fiction,  Jews, united states, fiction,  Germany, history, fiction,  Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Chicago (ill.), fiction