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• Eight Dates and Nights

  Aldredge, Betsy,

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• Facing the Enemy

  How a Nazi Youth Camp in America Tested a Friendship : a Novel in Verse

  Krasner, Barbara,

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• Just a Hat

  Khubiar, S.,

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• Past Present Future

  Solomon, Rachel Lynn,

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• The Blood Years

  Arnold, Elana K.,

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  Based on the true experiences of her grandmother's childhood in Holocaust-era Romania, award-winning author Elana K. Arnold weaves an unforgettable tale of love and loss in the darkest days of the twentieth century-and one young woman's will to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jake Show

  Levy, Joshua (Joshua S.),

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  For TV-obsessed Jake Lightman, his parents' divorce is like his favorite show getting canceled: The worst. Now he's stuck between playing the role of 'Yaakov' for his mother and 'Jacob' for his father.

• Going Bicoastal

  Adler, Dahlia,

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• Alte Zachen

  Old Things

  Hanaor, Ziggy,

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• The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

  Blum, Isaac,

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  Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much.The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Those Summer Nights

  Silverman, Laura,

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  After the catastrophic events of her bubbie's death and a soccer-career-ending injury, Hannah Klein went on a downward spiral that ended with her being sent to a boarding school for troubled teens. Now she's back home for the summer, determined to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aviva Vs. the Dybbuk

  Lowe, Mari,

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  A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her.

• The Ghosts of Rose Hill

  Romero, R. M. (Rachael Maria), 1987-

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  Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez--a biracial Jewish girl--finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Assignment

  Wiemer, Liza M.,

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  Standing in opposition to a class assignment to debate Hitler's Final Solution, seniors Cade and Logan become embroiled in turmoil involving their teacher, principal, Commissioner of Education, white supremacists, and their entire community.

• Alma Presses Play

  Cane, Tina, 1969-

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  "Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Camp

  Rosen, Lev AC,

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  At Camp Outland, a camp for LGBTQIA teens, sixteen-year-old Randall "Del" Kapplehoff's plan to have Hudson Aaronson-Lim fall in love with him succeeds, but both are hiding their true selves.

• Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize

  Rabb, Margo,

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  Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times, Lucy retaliates. But when the fallout is far worse than she meant it to be, she gets sent to Manhattan to serve as a full-time companion to the eccentric Edith Fox.

• The Hired Girl

  Schlitz, Laura Amy

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  "Desperate for the education her father denies her on their Pennsylvania farm, 14-year-old Joan runs away to Baltimore in 1911, where a well-to-do Jewish family hires her to help their obstinate, aging housekeeper." PW

• In the Neighborhood of True

  Carlton, Susan Kaplan,

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  Summer, 1958. After her father's death, Ruth Robb's family moves from New York City to Atlanta. Ruth quickly figures out she can be Jewish or she can be popular, but she can't be both, and decides to hide her religion.

• Ethel's Song

  Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems

  Krasner, Barbara,

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  The child of Jewish immigrants, Ethel Greenglass grows up on New York City's Lower East Side; she dreams of being an actress and a singer but finds romance and excitement in the arms of the charming Julius Rosenberg. Both are ardent supporters of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Some Kind of Hate

  Littman, Sarah,

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  When freshman Declan Taylor hurts his pitching arm he becomes mad at the world, soon getting caught up with a group of white supremacists and turning against his Jewish former friend, Jake--but when things turn violent Declan must figure out what he…Read moreRead more of this annotation