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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"While preparing for her bat mitzvah--and trying to make sense of her own life--Zippy discovers she has magical abilities when she conjures up a beautiful girl with no memory and wings like an angel to whom she is connected"--WorldCat.
"Hi, whoever is reading this. I'm Zipporah Chava McConnell, but everyone calls me Zippy. Things used to be simple--until a few weeks ago. Now my best friend, Bea, is acting funny; everyone at school thinks I'm weird;...
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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We Never Told is a page-turning novel about a glamorous family in the golden age of Hollywood. Set in suburban New York, it follows Sonya Adler's life from growing up in a "broken home," to the hippie sixties, and into the present with a shocking twist at the end. The story outlines a time when unmarried women were shamed into putting their newborns up for adoption and the consequences which have touched thousands of people. This fast-paced...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Hannah Malfa-Adler is Jew ... ish. Not that she really thinks about it. She'd prefer to focus on her favorite pastime: baking delicious food! But when her best friend has a beyond-awesome Bat Mitzvah, Hannah starts to feel a little envious ... Despite her parents firm no, Hannah knows that if she can learn enough about her own faith, she can convince her friends that the party is still in motion."--
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"Steven Boykey Sidley is an award-winning and multi-shortlisted novelist. His first novel, Entanglement won the UJ Debut Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and MNet Literary Award in South Africa. His second novel, Stepping Out was shortlisted for the UJ Main Fiction Award. Imperfect Solo is his third novel, and has been longlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize in South Africa and selected for Le Grand Livre...
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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A Kirkus Indie Book of the Month
Winner, Sarton Women's Book Award for Historical Fiction
When the Germans invade her city, Rachel Klein is a teenager falling in love. Within a year, she's delivering illegal papers and confronting Nazi soldiers. In this "compelling and touching tale" (Laurel Corona), Rachel finds her courage and faces wrenching choices.
Follow Rachel Klein as she faces double danger as a young Jewish woman...
Winner, Sarton Women's Book Award for Historical Fiction
When the Germans invade her city, Rachel Klein is a teenager falling in love. Within a year, she's delivering illegal papers and confronting Nazi soldiers. In this "compelling and touching tale" (Laurel Corona), Rachel finds her courage and faces wrenching choices.
Follow Rachel Klein as she faces double danger as a young Jewish woman...
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Series
Sheldon Horowitz novels volume prequel
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English
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"A coming-of-age story set during the rising tide of World War II, How to Find Your Way in the Dark follows Sheldon Horowitz from his humble start in a cabin in rural Massachusetts, through the trauma of his father's murder and the murky experience of assimilation in Hartford, Connecticut, to the birth of stand-up comedy in the Catskills-all while he and his friends are beset by anti-Semitic neighbors, employers, and criminals"--
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New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Freeman's powerful tale of a woman in search of her sacred heritage, who must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice for love Nineteen-year-old Janet Stevens leaves Wichita, Kansas, for New York-and a glamorous career as a model. Manhattan in the 1950s is a heady place for a sheltered Midwesterner. A new friend helps her discover her forefathers' faith, but from the moment she sees Bill McNeil at a party,...
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"A member of a second-generation Jewish family, Martin Helger, the odd man out at an elite private boys school in Johannesburg, must protect himself and fight for his future after a manipulative American arrives at the family home, revealing dark secrets and old sins amidst the backdrop of political violence"--Amazon.com.
10) The drive
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"This searing novel tells the journey of a young Israeli soldier at the breaking point, unable to continue carrying pour his military service, yet terrified of the consequences of leaving the army. As the soldier and his father embark a a lengthy drive to meet with a military psychiatrist, Yair Assulin penetrated the torn world of the hero, whose journey is not just that of a young man facing a crucial dilemma, but a tour of the soul and depths of...
11) Revolution Baby
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English
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A novel of growing up amid the terrors of World War II that offers.
Julek has assumed countless identities, lived with numerous families, and worked as a secret agent for the Resistance. He was raised in an orphanage (despite having two mothers) and he knows how to speak the language of dogs. All this at the tender age of fourteen!
Julek's story begins in Warsaw on the eve of World War II and ends in Paris after the city's triumphant liberation....
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English
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A Joy To Be Hidden is set in a vividly recreated late-90s New York City. The protagonist is Alice Stein, a graduate student whose father died a year before, and who has now lost her grandmother. In the process of sorting through the grandmother's belongings, Alice unlocks a family secret. In addition to its wisdom and rich humour, the novel is full of memorable characters. We can never quite forget the title quote-"It Is a joy to be hidden, and a...
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English
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Some people like comic books. They read them. They collect them. They grade them and sell them for a profit. Or, at least, they try to sell them for a profit. Comic book people love their comics from superheroes to romance to funny animals. These are the books that define them. Comic people love to talk about comics.
Here, in these pages, comic book people have a chance to take center stage and tell about their comics. Each chapter is another person...
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English
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Don't Ask Me If I Love is the story of a young man who hates war, but serves faithfully in his country's army. He loves his parents, but can no longer care about the things that are important to them. He is a citizen of a religious state, but questions many of its precepts. In need of someone to give meaning to his life he falls in love with an American girl. He is Assaf Ryke-one of the new Israelis of the 1960s.
Moving from a discotheque in Jerusalem...
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English
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A baby boomer born in Brooklyn, New York but raised in small town Georgia, Mark Lewis is faced with trying to find out where he belongs in the world. He seeks refuge in a small college in Maine. When he meets Caroline, an attractive brilliant but socially awkward young woman from old Yankee stock, he is conflicted about whether she is the right person for him.
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Though fourteen-year-old Alison Shandling is a brain, her twin brother, Adam, is autistic. All of her life, Alison's parents have focused on Adam and what he needs, while Alison has always felt she had to be perfect.
When the rabbi's son, Harry Roth, begins taunting Alison about her brother, she does her best to stand up for herself. But when Harry is injured in a diving accident, Alison senses that he's hiding something that he wants to share with...
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English
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"Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their family-owned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, but as he explores the plant's vast floors and assembly lines, he comes to a grim realization: employees are exploited, regulatory systems are corrupt and Alex's own father is engaging in bribes to protect the bottom line. When Alex meets a seamstress named Ivy, his...
18) The Old Bunch
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English
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The Old Bunch chronicles the lives of nineteen Jewish men and women on Chicago's west, a spawling-yet-intimate portrait of American life during the Great Depression, by an author the LA Times hailed as "the most significant American Jewish writer of his time." Among the various lives depicted so vividly are those of Joe Feeman, a wayward artist who loses the love of his life to a doctor whose future path is as clear as Joe's is uncertain. Sam Eisen...
19) The lake on fire
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
"[An] epic narrative that begins among immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Chaya and her strange, brilliant, little brother Asher depart for Chicago only to discover that the Gilded Age is as empty a facade as the beautiful Columbian Exposition attracting thousands to Lake Michigan's shore. They scrape together a meager living--she in a cigar factory; he, roaming the city and stealing books and jewelry to share with the poor, until they find different...
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In this coming-of-age story, Benjie Gabai is convinced he's been the victim of a terrible cosmic hoax. Instead of being born in the 18th century as a French-Canadian voyageur, God has plunked him down in present-day Montreal, into a family that views his fur trade obsession as proof that their Benjie, once so bursting with promise, has well and truly lost it. Benjie serves out his days as caretaker of The Bay's poky in-store fur trade museum, dusting...
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