Sydney Taylor

The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.

The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew; a single uncle finds romance; World War I approaches and the family heads to Rockaway Beach to avoid infection during an outbreak of infantile paralysis.

The experiences of two young Jewish girls and their mother, living on a farm in the Czechoslovak Republic after World War I, while waiting for their father to send them money to join him in America.

In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.