While trying to find the reason why his shofar doesn't work, Avi has a magical adventure that teaches him the true meaning of Rosh Hashanah.
The Passover Story (Jewish Holiday Books for Children, #6)
by Sarah Mazor
Summer of My German Soldier (Lrs Large Print Cornerstone)
by Bette Green
An emotional, thought-provoking book from multi-award-winning author Bette Greene. When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi--but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own, who understands and appreciates her in a way her parents never will. And Patty is willing...
Sadie and her four little brothers are very poor and always hungry.On the first night of Chanukah, Sadie performs a generous act, and in turn receives a frying pan that cooks up sizzling hot, golden latkes on command.Sadie tells her brothers never to use the magic pan, but when she goes out one afternoon, the mischievous boys can't resist.They remember the words to start the pan cooking ...but what were the words to make it stop? This humorous tale of generosity and greed is accompanied by brigh...
A seventeen-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl leaves her home in New York for the summer to film a television show in California.
In Canada early in the twentieth century, Ben, the youngest in a family of Jewish immigrants struggling to make ends meet, decides to help out but when a hat maker gives him a chance, disaster strikes and Ben nearly loses hope.
MIS 130 Apellidos / My 130 Last Names (Serie Morada)
by Irene Vasco
A family celebrates Hanukkah by lighting candles, opening gifts, and eating latkes.
The Apple Tree's Discovery
by Contributor Peninnah Schram and Rachayl Eckstein Davis
A little apple tree in the middle of a forest of majestic oaks longs to have stars in its branches as the tall oak trees seem to have, but God says that the apple tree should be satisfied with what it has.
Amateur archaeologist Jodie invites her cousin Zach on an adventure exploring Hezekiah's Tunnel in Jerusalem when he comes for a visit over Passover.
At summer camp, Carlie and Sara quickly bond over a love of singing and other shared interests, but Sara mistakes Carlie's excitement over her surname as teasing, not knowing that it gives them something else in common.
The Ziz, a huge bird that is clumsy but good-hearted, accidentally destroys a vegetable garden, and when he asks God for advice he learns the importance of apologizing.
As the Shapiros prepare to welcome a new family to their neighborhood, Sammy, a young spider who lives in the Shapiro's house, is blown by the wind into the neighbor's yard and entertains little Moti, who speaks to him in Hebrew.
Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pin. She's just moved from New York City to the suburbs, and she's anxious to fit in with her new friends, so when they form a secret club to talk about boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can believe Margaret doesn't have a religion. And Margaret can't tell them the truth: that she can talk to God anyway, about everything that's on her mind--in...
Keystone Kids (Baseball Diamonds (Paperback), #3) (Brooklyn Dodgers, #2)
by John R Tunis
When two young brothers join the Brooklyn Dodgers, one becomes team manager and is faced with the task of uniting a team rife with dissension and prejudice against the new Jewish rookie catcher.
A prisoner in a Nazi labor camp, Herman soon loses the will to go on. Then a young girl appears on the other side of the barbed-wire fence--an angel bearing food and hope. Based on a true story.
Ruth loves going on vacation with her brother, Sammy, to their grandparents home in Florida, and one of her favorite parts is practicing her Yiddish, a Jewish language full of fun words. Ruth loves going on vacation with her brother, Sammy, to their grandparents' home in Florida, and one of her favorite parts is practicing her Yiddish, a Jewish language full of fun words.