Seattle to Strawberries

Seattle to Strawberries

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Friends came over to say goodbye. I bit back my shame as I dodged questions about why we were leaving, too embarrassed to tell them about our financial woes. They...read more

Book Title Seattle to Strawberries
Author Chaya Rochel Zimmerman
ISBN 9798888390832
Date Published June 2023
Leveled Reading
Pages 272
Cover Type Hardcover

Friends came over to say goodbye. I bit back my shame as I dodged questions about why we were leaving, too embarrassed to tell them about our financial woes. They wished me well in my new school. I didn’t tell them there was no school for me. Watching each friend walk out the door shattered another piece of my heart.

Sixteen-year-old Rina Ziskind loves living in Seattle, with her amazing best friend and close-knit community. Suddenly, her school’s scholarship fund mysteriously disappears. In the blink of an eye, Rina’s father accepts a job as a mashgiach on a strawberry farm in Oregon, and the Ziskinds must move to a small country town with no Jewish schools, shuls, or stores. Rina is devastated. How will she graduate high school? Will she ever make new friends? 

Seattle to Strawberries is a dramatic and engaging story by talented author Chaya Rochel Zimmerman. Join Rina as she befriends a Jewish country girl far from Yiddishkeit, struggles to restore her family’s dignity, and adjusts to her new town, worlds away from her familiar home.