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Once I Was a Plum Tree
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Johanna Hurwitz |
Increasingly aware of the differences between her family, who are nonobservant Jews, and their Catholic neighbors, 10-year-old Gerry Flam begins to investigate her heritage. |
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The rooftop adventure of Minnie and Tessa, factory fire survivors
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Holly Littlefield,Amanda Doering Tourville |
Two immigrant friends, Jewish Minnie and Catholic Tessa, work long hours at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and when a fire breaks out on March 25, 1911, trapping dozens of workers insid… |
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What happened to Heather Hopkowitz?
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Charlotte Herman |
When the parents of fourteen-year-old Heather go on a month-long cruise, she goes to stay with Orthodox family friends and decides to change her life. |
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Looking for me
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Betsy R. Rosenthal |
In 1936 Baltimore, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl, one of twelve siblings, tries to find her place in her overcrowded family. |
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Emanuel and the whale oil lamp
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Heidi Smith Hyde |
Nine-year-old Emanuel stows away aboard a whaling ship until the Hanukkah candles in a window light the way to bring him home. |
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B.U.G.
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Jane Yolen |
Tired of being picked on at school for being a "furrin Immigrant" because he is Jewish, twelve-year-old Sammy Greenburg learns the legend of the golem from his bar mitzvah coach, but discovers that f… |
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Lightning's run
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Gabriel Goodman |
Bullied relentlessly, Hiram Goldfarb, a Jewish immigrant in nineteenth-century New York City, learns bareknuckle fighting from a former slave wanted for a heinous crime in the South. |
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Good night, Maman
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Norma Fox Mazer |
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York. |
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Eli remembers
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Ruth Vander Zee,Marian Sneider |
Year after year, Eli watches the solemn lighting of seven candles at his family's celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. On such a happy occasion, his parents and grandparents always seem… |
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Sadie's snowy tu B'Shevat
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Jamie Korngold |
Sadie wants to plant a tree for Tu B'Shevat. But it's the middle of winter! Sadie learns why the tree-planting holiday is celebrated in winter and finds her own special ways to celebrate it. |
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Ike and Mama and the block wedding
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Carol Snyder |
Rosie Weinstein is getting married on Sunday but not without a little help from the residents of East 136th Street. |
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Chanukah lights
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Michael J. Rosen |
A young boy counts the candles on the family menorah and the lights he sees in the world around him on each night of Hanukkah. Includes information on the history and significance of the celebration. |
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Never mind the Goldbergs
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Matthue Roth |
A seventeen-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl leaves her home in New York for the summer to film a television show in California. |
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A brief chapter in my impossible life
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Dana Reinhardt |
Simone's starting her junior year in high school. Her mom's a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad's a political cartoonist, so she's grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign pet… |
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The Summer of My German Soldier
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Bette Greene,Bette Greene |
When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, sh… |
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