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Beni's Tiny Tales: Around the Year in Jewish Holidays
by Jane Breskin Zalben
Striking the perfect balance between fact and fiction, this one-of-a-kind gift book invites readers to join Beni and his family as they celebrate a year in Jewish Holidays, including their favorite craft activities, songs and recipes.
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Do Not Eat This Book!: Fun with Jewish Foods & Festivals
by Beth Kander
This entertaining and mouthwatering read-aloud picture book takes readers through the Jewish holidays and their related special dishes and includes easy, kid-friendly recipes that are kitchen-tested by the author and her family.
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Measuring a Year: A Rosh Hashanah Story
by Linda Elovitz Marshall
Join us on a wonderful journey of fun and learning as we celebrate Rosh Hashanah - a special day filled with joy and happiness. This book invites young readers and their families to think about all the amazing things that happened during the year, like making new friends and learning new skills. Together, we'll explore the power of rhyming words to help us reflect on the ups and downs of the past year and how we can make things even better in the future. So come along and let's celebrate Rosh Hashanah in a fun and exciting way!
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Miriam and the Sasquatch
by Eric A. Kimmel
The autumn leaves are turning yellow and gold. The apples are ready to pick. Miriam can't wait to have fresh apples and honey for Rosh Hashanah. But something is eating the apples in the orchard. It's a sasquatch.
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The Moving - Box Sukkah
by Leah Rachel Berkowitz
A boy and his mom move to the city shortly before Sukkot and need to figure out where to build a sukkah and how to make new holiday traditions in an unfamiliar place.
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Purim is Coming!
by Tracy Newman
A family and their dog get ready for Purim by baking hamantaschen, making costumes, and reading the megillah.
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Something New for Rosh Hashanah
by Jane Yolen
Five-year-old Becca refuses to try any new foods, until her family persuades her that Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is the perfect time to try something new.
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Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story
by Leslâea Newman
Forced to continue her journey to America alone when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, young Gittel arrives at Ellis Island to discover that the ink on the paper containing her relative's contact information has become illegible.
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Golem
by David Wisniewski
The legend of Rabbi Loew, who shapes a giant man of clay--a golem--and brings him to life to defend the Jews of Prague from their persecutors, reveals the consequences of unleashing power beyond human control.
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All Three Stooges
by Erica S Perl
A coming-of-age comedy about friendship and loss follows the experiences of two seventh-grade best friends who become estranged in the aftermath of a parent's sudden death, a situation that is complicated by an opinionated girl, Noa, who shares Noah's name and Bar Mitzvah day.
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Anya and the Dragon
by Sofiya Pasternack
Agreeing to hunt down a dangerous dragon to save her Jewish family's livelihood from a bigoted magistrate, headstrong 11-year-old Anya confronts a difficult choice when she discovers that the dragon does not pose an actual threat.
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Becoming Brianna
by Terri Libenson
Told in alternating past and present chapters, a latest series entry finds brainy Bri wondering if she has taken on too much when she agrees to learn a new language, give a speech and organize a party while juggling drama at school and home.
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Dreidels on the Brain
by Joel ben Izzy
During the Hanukkah season of 1971, in the suburbs of the suburbs of Los Angeles (a place he calls the "Land of Shriveled Dreams"), 12-year-old Joel, who dreams of being his own superhero despite serious disillusionment with his life, gets more than he bargained for when he bets everything on his own Hanukkah miracle, to see whether it's worth believing in God or miracles or anything at all.
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Honey and Me
by Meira Drazin
When eleven-year-old Milla's best friend Honey joins her school for sixth grade Milla finds herself in her friend's shadow, but as the year progresses through the Jewish holidays Milla tries to cope with the tensions and the dramas of school--including the death of a beloved teacher.
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Letters from Cuba
by Ruth Behar
A young Jewish girl flees her home in Poland on the eve of World War II before establishing a new life for herself in Cuba, where she works to rescue the other members of her family. By the award-winning author of Bridges to Cuba/Puenta a Cuba.
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Recipe for Disaster
by Aimee Lucido
After her best friend has an awesome Bat Mitzvah, Hannah goes behind her parents' backs to throw her own, and as the lies mount and secrets are revealed, she learns what being Jewish is all about.
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The Unfinished Corner
by Dani Colman
Twelve-year-old Miriam doesn't know much about Jewish mythology. She's not even sure she wants to be Jewish. So, imagine her confusion when a peculiar angel whisks her off to finish the mythological Unfinished Corner, a place full of monsters and mystery.
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Walk Till You Disappear
by Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Twelve-year-old Miguel, who feels drawn to the priesthood, is shocked to learn of his Jewish ancestry and runs away into the desert where he meets Rushing Cloud, a Tohono O'odham youth escaping a mission school.
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Wishing About Matzo Ball Soup!
by Lisa Greenwald
To save her family's deli, 11-year-old Ellie makes a wish on Matzo Ball Soup and enlists the help of her BFF, her sisters, her lunch buddies and her grandparents to prove that old-fashioned Jewish delis can get with the times.
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Alma Presses Play
by Tina Cane
In 1980s New York, half-Chinese, half-Jewish Alma, whose life is a series of half ways, uses her Walkman to get through the challenges thrown her way until she is ready to press play on the soundtrack of her life.
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