Written and illustrated by: Patricia Polacco.

After being initiated into a neighbor’s family by a solemn backyard ceremony, a young Russian American girl and her African American brothers determine to buy their gramma Miss Eula a beautiful Easter hat. But their good intentions are misunderstood, until they discover just the right way to pay for the hat that Miss Eula’s had her eye on.

A loving family story woven from the author’s childhood. (From GoodReads.)

Note from Auntie Anne: on the face of it, this book doesn’t have any connection to the Holocaust, but Mr. Kodinski, the shop keeper, is a concentration camp survivor, as evidenced by the tattoo on his arm, and Eula’s comment “that poor man has suffered so much in his life.”