Green by Sam Graham-Felsen
Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won’t even buy him a...
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A Heart Just Like My Mother’s by Lela Nargi
Valeria Cis, illustrator Shy Anna doesn’t think she is anything like her outgoing, funny, clever mother. One day Anna sees a hungry man on the street and decides to find a way to help....
Welcome to the Seder: A Passover Haggadah for Everyone by Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky
Rinat Gilboa, illustrator Celebrate Passover with traditional seder texts, as well as poems, readings, and stories that acknowledge, value, and include the diverse backgrounds of seder participants today. Lead lively discussions on the universal...
The Magnificent Esme Wells by Adrienne Sharp
From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit...
The Mighty Franks: A Memoir by Michael Frank
The family is uncommonly close: Michael’s childless Auntie Hankie and Uncle Irving, glamorous Hollywood screenwriters, are doubly related— Hankie is his father’s sister, and Irving is his mother’s brother. The two families live near...
Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
In this lyrical and searing debut novel written by a rising literary star and MacDowell Fellow, a young man is preparing to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close...
Can You Hear a Coo, Coo? by Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh
Marc Lumer, illustrator Was that noise a roar, roar? Lions! Shake the floor, floor. Animals board Noah’s Ark two-by-two, heralding their arrival with sounds both ferocious and gentle. Introduce young readers to the classic...
Racing Against History by Rick Richman
The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight Hitler Racing Against History is the stunning story of three powerful personalities who sought in 1940 to turn the tide of history. David Ben-Gurion, Vladimir...
All Three Stooges by Erica S. Perl
Spoiler alert: This book is not about the Three Stooges. It’s about Noah and Dash, two seventh graders who are best friends and comedy junkies. That is, they were best friends, until Dash’s father...
In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times by David Stromberg
You don’t need to be Jewish to love Levy’s rye bread, nor do you need to read Yiddish to appreciate these wise tales. This engaging collection offers access to modern works–translated for the first...
