Book Review Outline
Book title and author: Letters From Rifka by Karren Hesse
Title of review: Letters From Rifka by: Dallas Wood
Number of stars (1 to 5): 4

Introduction
“Letters From Rifka” is a story about a Jewish family who is fleeing Russia, to go to America. On the way the family encounters many obstacles considering they are being hunted by the Russian government. It took place around World War 2. Rifka records all events in her Pushkin telling the story of her journeys.

Description and summary of main points
First they are fleeing the country, and they sneak onto a train but Rifka had to distract one of the guards because she is blonde haired with blue eyes, and the rest of the family had dark hair because they are Jewish. They took the train to Poland, where they did horrible things to them. They managed to escape, and made it to another country. Rifka was separated from her parents due to a certain event.

Evaluation
This book is a good book for kids in middle school, maybe seventh or eighth grade level. I give this book a 4/5 star review, because it was able to keep me entertained even though I don’t like to read. You may like to read this if your into history and entertainment.

Conclusion
I think this book was really good, and I really like how it was written and set up. Just how she wrote the entire story as a journal, and explained in detail how hard it was for her and others back during this time. The book is actually a true journal of one of the authors relatives so it makes it even better.

Your final review
If I had to rate this book after reading it for two years in a row and still being intrigued, I would give it an overall 4/5 for it being so good. I would recommend it for anyone in middle school. It would be good for teachers to read too as a reading lesson throughout the year, maybe for the holocaust unit in the middle of the year.