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In mid-nineteenth-century Russia, Mendel Cholinsky, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy, tries to escape to America to avoid being taken into the Czar's army for twenty-five years of military service
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Czar Nicholas's soldiers enter all the Russian villages and seize the Jewish boys for the military, but Mendel, only twelve years old, knows he is too young to fight and makes a desperate attempt to reach the border in order to flee to safety. Reprint.
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