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The Girls in the Velvet Frame

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Five sisters in Jerusalem, 1913, try to find their lost brother in New York with the help of a photograph. Jerusalem, 1913. The long, hot summer drags on for the Bernstein sisters - Rifka, Chava, Naomi, Dvora and Shoshanna.

Their brother Isaac has been in New York for almost a year, and still the family has heard nothing from him.

So when their frivolous aunt Mimi suggests that the girls have a photograph taken for their mother's birthday, they come up with a plan.

Can they use the photograph to find Isaac? Will the family ever be reunited?

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HarperCollins
0007109075 / 9780007109074
Paperback / softback
823.914
01/10/2001
United Kingdom
English
191p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978.
Adele Geras is an award-winning author, and was recently shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award with her title "Troy"
Adele Geras is an award-winning author, and was recently shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award with her title "Troy" YFT Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage)