Checkpoints

By Marilyn Levy

Subjects: Bombings, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Family life, fiction, Families, Suicide bombings, Israel, fiction, Jews, fiction, Terrorism, fiction, Arab-Israeli conflict, Fiction, Children's fiction, Terrorism, Juvenile fiction, Jews, Jerusalem, fiction, Race relations, Family life

Description: Tensions in 2002 Jerusalem have not interfered much with sixteen-year-old Noa's life, and she is even forming a friendship with a Palestinian Muslim girl, but the Passover suicide bombing in Netanya changes Noa's family forever and transforms her faith, politics, and friendships.