02153cam a2200301 4500 2708892916 TxAuBib 20260317120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781646035526 1646035526 B0CZQ6JTQR Amazon d2fd8bad-7bb4-4ae8-b454-725f87160110 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10634410 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Schneider, Laurie. Gittel [Bridges eBook]. Fitzroy Books, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. The town bully, Karl Leckner, threatens to nail her mouth shut. Her best friend says she has more sass than sense. Even her beloved zayde wishes she would hold her tongue and rise above. But thirteen-year-old Gittel Borenstein' s feet are planted stubbornly on the earth and her tongue is as sharp as Zayde' s chalef, the razor he uses for butchering chickens. She' s fed up with being called Geetle Beetle, or Jew girl, or worse. The Borensteins and twelve other Jewish families have left behind the deadly pogroms of Eastern Europe only to find life nearly as harsh in 1911 Mill Creek, Wisconsin. The winters are fierce, the farming is unfamiliar, and not everyone in Mill Creek accepts the Jewish settlers. A star student, Gittel takes refuge in school, where she longs to blend in with her gentile friends and dreams of becoming a famous writer— a far-fetched dream when eighth grade represents the last year of formal schooling available in Mill Creek and Karl Leckner is determined a Jewish girl will never blend in. Juvenile Literature. Historical Fiction. Juvenile Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-15 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d2fd8bad-7bb4-4ae8-b454-725f87160110&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d2fd8bad-7bb4-4ae8-b454-725f87160110&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)