The Doll with the Yellow Star by Yona Zeldis McDonough

Author:Yona Zeldis McDonough
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250110282
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

A letter comes from Mathilde. Her friend is having a difficult time in California. She has not heard from her mother or sister and doesn’t know what happened to them. Claudine knows just how Mathilde feels. She takes out the letters she does have from Papa and reads them again, hunting for a clue about what might have happened, but there is nothing.

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Soon it is her birthday again, her first birthday in America. Her aunt and uncle throw her a birthday party with games like pin the tail on the donkey, musical chairs, and charades. Afterward, there is a cake—Aunt Adele has been saving their rations of butter and sugar for weeks to make it. Uncle Gus dons a tall black hat and red satin cape. He performs a magic show in the living room, and all the girls gasp with wonder at his clever tricks. Aunt Adele puts big silver hoops on her ears and ties a silk scarf around her head. Seated at the kitchen table, with the lights out and the curtains drawn, she pretends to be a Gypsy fortune-teller. “I see good things ahead for you,” she tells Claudine as she peers into her open palm.

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