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An Etrog from Across the Sea

By Deborah Bodin Cohen - By Kerry Olitzky - By Stacey Dressen McQueen (illus.) - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Young Leah and Aaron receive a letter from their Papa, who is sailing from Corsica to colonial New York. He promises to bring ...Read Review

The Prince of Steel Pier

By Stacy Nockowitz - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Thirteen-year-old Joseph “Joey” Goodman lives with his parents, grandparents, three brothers, and an uncle. August 1975 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, should be busy ...Read Review

The Woodcarver’s Daughter

By Kaja Kajfez (illus.) - By Yona Zeldis McDonough - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

When a Russian pogrom burns her father’s woodcarving shop, twelve-year-old Batya’s family decides to move to America. Mama, Papa, Batya, older ...Read Review

The Singer and the Scientist

By Isabel Muñoz (illus.) - By Lisa Rose - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Singer Marian Anderson and scientist Albert Einstein cross paths in 1937 at a performance in New Jersey. In a time of racial and religious ...Read Review

Beni’s War

By Tammar Stein - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Beni’s moshav is located just three miles from the Syrian border. When a surprise attack occurs on Yom Kippur, his agricultural cooperative ...Read Review

A Dreidel in Time: A New Spin on an Old Tale

By Marcia Berneger - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Devorah and Benjamin are eager for presents on the first night of Hanukkah. Before they are allowed to open their gifts, their grandparents ...Read Review

Room for One More

By Monique Polak - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Rosetta Wolfson, second oldest in a family of three girls, loves to listen in on other people’s conversations. She is under the ...Read Review

Walk Till You Disappear

By Jacqueline Dembar Greene - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

Miguel Abrano lives on the family horse ranch just outside Tucson in 1872. He is nearly 13 and thinks himself almost a man, certainly old ...Read Review