Presents a collection of prayers, psalms, and spiritual poetry accompanied by thematically related works of art from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
With World War I raging in Europe, eleven-year-old Anna is thrilled to learn that her cousin Tania is coming from Russia to stay with Anna's family on the lower East Side of New York, and although Tania is shy and withdrawn when she arrives, her love of cats helps her adjust to her new family.
In the summer of 1910, Dossi, a poor Russian immigrant from the tenements of New York, spends two weeks with the Meade family on their Vermont farm, and all their lives are enriched by the experience.
In the 1930s, John Cloud travels from his Mohawk Indian reservation in upstate New York to New York City where he watches with pride as his father helps to build the Empire State Building.
