Eddie Whatever by Lois Ruby
Thirteen-year-old Eddie needs to do a community service project in preparation for his bar mitzvah. Against his better judgment, he ends up with a volunteering gig at Silver Brook Pavilion retirement home, where the...
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Pollak’s Arm by Hans von Trotha
Translator: Elisabeth Lauffer October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city’s Jewish population the next day, Monsignor F. dispatches...
The Book of Anna by Joy Ladin
THE BOOK OF ANNA is written in the voice of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in 1950s Prague answering phones for the...
The Welcome Chair by Rosemary Wells
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney Based in part on a 100-year-old family journal, Rosemary Wells brings to life a story that the diary’s fragile pages tell. It’s the story of a wooden rocking chair handmade in...
Alma Presses Play by Tina Cane
A lyrical novel-in-verse that takes us through the journey of coming of age in New York during the 80s. Alma’s life is a series of halfways: She’s half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the...
Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr
From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between...
Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? Can we envision a world that sees impossible creatures? In 1958, amongst the children born with spina...
The Postmistress of Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London revisits the dark early days of the German occupation in France in this haunting novel—a love story and a tale of high-stakes...
The Renegade Reporters by Elissa Brent Weissman
When Ash gets kicked off her school’s news show, she becomes a renegade reporter–and makes a big discovery about technology and her fellow students’ privacy. Ash and her friends are reporters. They were ready...
Tía Fortuna’s New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey by Ruth Behar
Illustrator: Devon Holzwarth A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tía move away from her beloved Miami apartment. When Estrella’s Tía Fortuna...
