The diary of a Jewish girl, Zipporah Feldman, who, at the beginning of the 20th century, emigrated from Russia to the USA with her parents and sister. The pavements in America were not made of gold, as the inhabitants of the Jewish town assumed, but Zipporah's family quickly realizes that here they can make a decent life for themselves if they work well and hard. Zipporah enters school, learns English and gradually turns into a real American. One of the books in a very popular series in the USA (original title “Dear America”). The authors of the books in the series are professional writers and experts in American history. The story is told on behalf of a girl who, by coincidence, finds herself at the epicenter of key events in American history.