The bedrooms are cold, the food is awful (and is often stolen by bullies) and the superintendent, Mr. When Dave first arrives at the orphanage, he absolutely hates it. Ida sends Dave to a Hebrew orphanage, the Hebrew Home For Boys. Always having lived under the shadow of his older brother Gideon, he is abandoned by his stepmother Ida while Gideon goes to live with his uncle. More recently, his father dies after falling off a roof of a house he was helping to build. This gives her the opportunity to include the Yiddish language which is spoken by the character, Solomon Gruber.ĭave Caros, a teenager troublemaker, lost his mother during his birth. Levine bases the setting of her book in the Lower East Side of New York City in the Hebrew community. This book was inspired by leading figures in the arts during the Harlem Renaissance and her father, David Carson, whose childhood was spent in an orphanage. Dave at Night is a young adult, historical fiction novel written by award-winning author Gail Carson Levine in 1999.
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