Rainy River Girl

What will happen when a little Jewish girl heads off with her parents to a small rural town in 1930's Ontario Canada, while being the only Jewish family in town?

This entertaining memoir provides the answers. Follow Toby Gershfield in her adventures as she is challenged by scary sights and sounds, frightening dreams, prickly situations, and friends who keep disappearing. She also devises unique strategies to only do the things that she wants in ways that only a little girl can. In the midst of all this, she finds her way, and grows into a young Jewish woman whose views of herself and the world are widened.

Anyone who enjoys reading about the way things used to be in North America in the early 20th century, before the advent of television, cell phones and the Internet, will be delighted by this book. Over a dozen pencil drawings by James N Gershfield are included.