Thirteen-year-old Alyssa tries to balance the conflicting demands of ballet training with finding her place as a Jew in today's world.
Imprisoned at a camp called Auschwitz during World War II, twelve-year-old Zev and eleven-year-old David experience a Chanukah miracle in answer to their prayers.
After learning about Shabbat from his friend, Rabbi Judah, a Roman king decrees a bigger, better Shabbat in his kingdom, and the rabbi must come to teach him what truly makes Shabbat sweet.
When Racheli thinks she is either too little or too big to do the things she wants, her grandmother reminds her that she is just right to be herself.
A kitchen mishap presents K'tonton with a sticky problem as he is preparing for Yom Kippur, the Day of Judgement. In this adventure children will experience the holiday's true message and enjoy our heroes exploits.
Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You
by Todd Hasak-Lowy
Through a series of lists, a narrator reveals how fifteen-year old Darren's world was rocked by his parents' divorce just as his brother, Nate, was leaving for college, and a year later when his father comes out as gay, then how he begins to deal with it all after a stolen weekend with Nate and his crush, Zoey.
bsd The Inventor who Loved the Crazy Princess (The Quantum Princess, #1)
by Alizah Teitelbaum
★ Caldecott Medal Winner ★ "the book is a triumph, the definitive Noah's Ark."—Publishers Weekly Winner of the Caldecott Medal, an ALA Notable Children's Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Peter Spier's Noah's Ark has been the iconic edition of this tale for over 40 years, in print continuously since its debut in 1977. In Spier's imaginative retelling, readers witness the danger and the grandeur of the terrifying flood but also the lighter moments: Noah's wife jumpi...
“Weber’s timeless, folk-style tale will strike a chord for young readers who will share Shimri’s frustration.” – Jewish Telegraphic Agency The people of ancient Jerusalem must walk far to get their water. Shimri is too young to help in the fields. But by watching his family at home, he solves a problem that baffles a king - proving that big ideas can indeed come from small mouths.