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Author
Publisher
Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Harpervia edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When their best friend Avishay, who is dead, is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics, his four closest friends conspire to conceal Avishay's corpse until the committee's announcement and must decide how far they'll go to help their friend die a winner.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny-and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
258 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life.
In 1492, during the Spanish Inquisition, Benvenida and her family are banished from Spain for being Jewish, and must flee the country or be killed. They journey by foot and by sea, eventually settling in Istanbul.
Over four centuries...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Jewish boy falls in love with a fellow counselor at summer camp. A group of Jewish friends takes the trip of a lifetime. A girl meets her new boyfriend's family over Shabbat dinner. Two best friends put their friendship to the test over the course of a Friday night. A Jewish girl feels pressure to date the only Jewish boy in her grade. A crush's Hanukkah party goes awry when hilarious pranks and disaster ensure.
From stories of confronting their...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
290 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hi, whoever is reading this. I'm Zipporah Chava McConnell, but everyone calls me Zippy.
Things used to be simple--until a few weeks ago. Now my best friend, Bea, is acting funny; everyone at school thinks I'm weird; and my mom is making me start preparing for my bat mitzvah, even though we barely ever go to synagogue. The only thing that still seems to make sense is magic.
The thing is, I'm a witch. I've been casting spells since I was little. And...
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Danielito loves Januca. The kids in Bobe's neighborhood play with Mexican tops called trompos, and Danielito's dreidel joins the fun, making new friends for Danielito along the way.
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged).
Language
English
Description
The five Maccabee sons are always losing things, and their mom is ever there to remind them where to look, but when they cannot find the oil to light the Temple menorah after defeating the Greek army, they must remember her sage advice. Includes the story of Hanukkah.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 323 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Abraham Cahan arrived in the United States, he, like so many immigrants, had many questions. How would he live in this new land? He became a voice for the people. First as a journalist, then as the founder and editor of the Yiddish-language newspaper the Forverts (the Forward).
From explaining voting rights and the importance of public health measures to answering everyday questions like how to play baseball, Cahan improved the lives of countless...
11) Wide awake now
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this reimagining of the 2004 novel Wide Awake, the author flips the script and rewrites Jimmy and Duncan's story in the real 2024, proving the critical importance of standing up for what you believe in and the cost of apathy in today's political climate.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
ix, 293 pages : illustrtions ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of Andr�ee Geulen and Ida Sterno, who worked with the Committee for the Defense of Jews to hide more than three thousand Jewish children in Belgium during World War II"--
"Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. ... Young schoolteacher Andr�ee Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow...
13) The Blood Years
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Frederieke Teitler and her sister, Astra, live in a home, in a city, in a world divided. Their father left when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for Jewish people. And when Astra falls...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
416 pages : 25 scattered b&w photos; 2 b&w maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in the notorious Auschwitz prison camp only to be separated after the end of the war, and how they were miraculously reunited 70 years later.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy"--
18) The night war
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
284 pages : map, photograph ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--