Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar - Hardcover Used Betsy Lerner Jess Harper has spent her

Jess Harper has spent her whole life trying to make her mum

Sara recruits Luis Navarro—a firefighter paramedic and dive captain willing to play the part of her smitten fiancé

who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries

even if it means coming clean to her colleagues

epic feasts and one GIANT rescue

Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar - Hardcover Used Betsy Lerner Jess Harper has spent herNEWBERY HONOR WINNER "As lyrical as it is epic, Across So Many Seas reminds us that while the past may be another country, it's also a living, breathing song of sadness and joy that helps define who we are." Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpr Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their