All Eyes on Alexandra by Anna Levine
Illustrator: Chiara Pasqualotto Alexandra Crane is terrible at following her family in their flying Vee. She can’t help it that the world is so full of interesting and distracting sights! When it’s time for...
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Silver Stars by Michael Grant
For fans of Girl in the Blue Coat, Salt to the Sea, and The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, the second book of New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant’s epic alternate...
Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered by Sarah Tuttle-Singer
One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem On a night in 1999 when Sarah Tuttle-Singer was barely 18, she was stoned by Palestinian kids...
A Cage Without Bars by Anne Dublin
In 1492, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain signed the Edict of Expulsion, giving all Jews three months to leave the country. In the aftermath, twelve-year-old Joseph escapes to Lisbon, Portugal with his...
Sephardic Women’s Voices: Out of North Africa by Nina B. Lichtenstein
Sephardic women’s writings present invaluable information about the marginalization and silencing of the Jewish experience in France and North Africa. These stories offer testaments of a generally excluded human experience that belongs in the...
Bitter and Sweet by Sandra V. Feder
When Hannah’s family has to move, her grandmother tells her how she felt leaving the old country ― it was both bitter and sweet. As Hannah leaves her friends behind and tries to get...
The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice by Dana E. Katz
Dana E. Katz examines the Jewish ghetto of Venice as a paradox of urban space. In 1516, the Senate established the ghetto on the periphery of the city and legislated nocturnal curfews to reduce...
The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington
Three weeks after being detained on her way home from school, fourteen-year-old Ella finds herself in the Upper Tailoring Studio, a sewing workshop inside a Nazi concentration camp. There, two dozen skeletal women toil...
The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture by Samantha Baskind
On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto...
The Girl with the Red Balloon (The Balloonmakers) by Katherine Locke
When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she’s caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who...
