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Letters From Rifka By Karen Hesse is about a Jewish female immigrant who tries to immigrate to America and gets ringworm.
I think this book is a great example of historical fiction because of the research Karen Heese did about the time this story took place.
Karen Heese uses a lot of simile and some alliteration. For [...]

Every person in my class wrote a story about someone that immigrated. We spent a lot of time working on these stories from interviewing people to writing the final books. My oral history book is about my uncle who emigrated from South Africa. My uncle lived there until 1975. [...]

I studied c15hu’s blog and this is what I learned.
I found out that they did all their writing about what they were learning in school. I learned something very important that was from c15hu’s mistakes. You have to proofread. You can also use pictures sometimes to make things stick out. They wrote very detailed posts [...]