Why We Fly by Gilly Segal
From the New York Times bestselling authors of I’m Not Dying with You Tonight comes a story about friendship, privilege, sports, and protest. With a rocky start to senior year, cheerleaders and lifelong best...
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Coming to Terms with America by Jonathan D. Sarna
Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to...
Lisa of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen
A True Story of Music and Survival During World War II Illustrator: Olga and Aleksey Ivanov Adapter: Sarah J. Robbins An inspiring true story about one girl’s escape from the Holocaust to become a...
The Fabulous Tale of Fish & Chips by Helaine Becker
Illustrator: Omer Hoffmann Joseph Malin loves his grandmother’s fried fish, which she makes according to an old family recipe. It’s so good, he thinks he might be able to make some money from it;...
Into the Forest by Rebecca Frankel
A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously...
The Last Words We Said by Leah Scheier
All the Bright Places meets If I Stay in this heart-wrenching, romantic novel about a tight-knit group of teen girls coping with a devastating loss and what happens when your best friend is also...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad’s Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg
In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers...
RBG’s Brave & Brilliant Women by Nadine Epstein
33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone This collection of biographies of brave and brilliant Jewish female role models–selected in collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and including an introduction written by the iconic Supreme Court...
The Candy Man Mystery by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky
Illustrator: Christina Mattison Ebert In a synagogue, everyone plays an important role: the rabbi, the cantor, the teachers, and even the congregation. But some synagogues are lucky enough to have a candy man. Everyone...
I Had a Brother Once by Adam Mansbach
A Memoir, a Poem Adam is in the middle of his own busy life, and approaching a career high in the form of a #1 New York Times bestselling book—when these words from his...
