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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Overweight and pretty, high school senior Aden gets caught up in an exciting new friendship that quickly turns into unreturned love--at least on Aden's side--even while it helps her get closer to her deceased mother's heritage.
Author
Language
English
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
26) Hanukkah hamster
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After finding a hamster that has been left behind in his taxi, a lonely immigrant cab driver celebrates Hanukkah with the little creature, while waiting to learn if the owner will return.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dahlia's reluctance about attending Camp Arava changes to wonder as strange things begin to happen, and soon she is connecting with David Schank, a student of the kabbala, and the maze he built at the camp in the 1930s.
28) Eddie whatever
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eddie's Mitzvah Project takes him to Silver Brook retirement home, where his assumptions about the elderly are upended by a ghost, a thief, long-running disagreements, and unexpected romance.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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 friends--and forming a klezmer fusion band--can be better than magic in defeating bullies.
32) Jackie's gift
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When young Steve, who is Jewish, tells his new neighbor, Jackie Robinson, that his family does not have a Christmas tree, Jackie brings one to his neighbors, not knowing that they celebrate Hanukkah instead of Christmas. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Front Street/Cricket Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1944, an Upstate New York teenager named Christine meets and falls in love with Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew living in a refugee camp, despite their parents' conviction that they do not belong together.
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sean continues to work on his screenplay while juggling seventh grade, track practice, a dog-walking job, recording his podcasts, and trying to keep his movie idea a secret from his parents and a private detective sent by a Hollywood movie studio.
37) Fat chance
Author
Publisher
PaperStar Books
Pub. Date
[1996] c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, thirteen-year-old Judi recounts her struggles to lose weight, hide her bulimia from her mother, find a boy friend, and decide on a profession.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg's mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel. Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia -- cue extreme adolescent awkwardness -- but a parental mandate has...
40) The first gift
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
As a boy tells about the first gift his parents gave him, his name, he identifies someone else who had the same name, recalls how names came to be, and lists different names one person might be called. Includes facts about Jewish naming customs.
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