Suzy And Leah Jane Yolen Analysis

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In Jane Yolen’s “Suzy and Leah”, Suzy and Leah have very different opinions about one another but soon find out about their similarities. Leah is a German-Jewish refugee who came to the United States to escape Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. After living in a refugee camp for a while, Leah and the other refugee children began to attend Suzy’s school. Suzy is an ordinary American girl. She is walking to the refugee camp near her home with two candy bars and sees the conditions the refugees live in. She goes again in September, this time bringing oranges, showing her curiosity in the refugees (115). When the refugee kids attend Suzy’s school for the first time, Suzy gets upset to see that her mother had donated her old pinafore which Leah was wearing