Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Token Token Kwitney, Alisa/ Jones, Joelle/ Wands, Steve (ILT) Shira, a 15 year old teenager whose best friend is a bawdy 80 year old turns to shoplifting when her father starts dating his secretary. When Shira gets caught by a dark-eyed, streetwise boy from Spa… OL13753540W
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Jesse Andrews Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, … OL16190785W
Courageous teen resisters Courageous teen resisters Ann Byers "Examines the stories of children and teen resisters in Europe during the Holocaust, including resistance groups, unarmed resistance, armed resistance in the ghettos and camps, and partisan units"--P… OL1978646W
We need to talk We need to talk Rochel Sofer Miri is a young teacher at Yeshiva Academy for Girls. She has trouble managing a home and her own 3 children plus her work life and student problems. Miri's friend Penina appears to have a perfect … OL23313126W
Where there's a will Where there's a will Bracha Rosman Lauren, fifteen, from Beverly Hills, and two younger siblings suddenly lose their parents in an accident. An unknown religious aunt brings them to Brooklyn's Boro Park to live but Lauren has trouble … OL29269439W
Ellie's Inheritance Ellie's Inheritance Hila Colman A young Jewish woman, whose family has been impoverished by the 1929 stock market crash, struggles to define herself during the intellectual ferment of New York in the 1930's. OL4801150W