Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. Jewish Studies. In 1905 a young Jewish girl and her father flee Czarist Russia for America. "Outstanding in both its structure and its questioning of faith, this offering is not to be missed"--Kirkus Reviews. DOUBLE CROSSING is the winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, a Notable Book for a Global Society, and was included in Booklist's Top Ten First Novels for Youth. Eva Tal was born in 1947 in New York City. After receiving her BA from Oberlin College, she moved to Israel in the early 1970s. She lives on Kibbutz Hatzor with her husband and three sons. "Best of all is the shocking surprise that changes everything, even Papa--a haunting aspect of the immigrant story left too long untold"--Boosklist.