Candlelight for Rebecca / Jacqueline D. Greene / 85 pages / Winter Holiday Themed Book

This American Girl book features Rebecca Rubin who is growing up in a big Russian-Jewish family in New York City in 1914.  She and her friend Rose object to making wreaths as a classroom project for Christmas.  Her family does not celebrate Christmas.  Rose puts her wreath together sloppily, but Rebecca is praised for her finished project.  She doesn't want to offend her family by bringing home this symbol so contrary to their beliefs.  She gives it instead to a lonely Italian gentleman in her building who raises carrier pigeons.