With a gift of some money and a boat ticket to New York sent from her Aunt Manya, Sarah, a ten-year old immigrant, sets out in 1891 on her arduous journey to America, where she hopes to live in a free country.
She must face unknown difficulties and dangers along the way. Fate takes a hand at every turn, but will it be sufficient to give her the courage she needs to carry on?
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Jose Patterson is a retired advisory teacher in special education (gypsy, fairground and circus children) and lives in Oxford. She is now a full-time author of children's non-fiction books. No Buts, Becky! is her first work of fiction.
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