Gittel

The town bully, Karl Leckner, threatens to nail her mouth shut. Her best friend says she has more sass than sense. Even her beloved zayde wishes she would hold her tongue and rise above. But thirteen-year-old Gittel Borenstein'' s feet are planted stubbornly on the earth and her tongue is as sharp as Zayde'' s chalef, the razor he uses for butchering chickens. She'' ...