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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Bubba Brayna makes the best latkes in the village, and on the first night of Hanukkah, the scent of her cooking wakes a hungry, adorable bear from his hibernation. He lumbers into town to investigate, and Bubba Brayna--who does not see or hear very well--mistakes him for her rabbi. She welcomes the bear inside to play the dreidel game, light the menorah, and enjoy a scrumptious meal. However, after her well-fed guest leaves, there's a knock at the...
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Series
Ring of Solomon volume 1
Pub. Date
c2023.
Description
When he purchases a mysterious ring at a flea market, Zach Darlington is granted strange powers that come in handy when scary creatures emerge from hiding, determined to fulfill a prophecy dooming all who walk the Earth.
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Anya volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Crossing paths at an inn, thirteenth-century travelers impart the tales of a monastery oblate, a Jewish refugee, and a psychic peasant girl with a loyal greyhound, the three of whom join forces on a chase through France to escape persecution.
13) The map of stars
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Series
York (Laura Ruby) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Tess, Theo, and Jaime continue their investigation into the Old York Cipher while descovering plans for a mysterious invention.
17) Molly's pilgrim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Includes author's note which details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can't always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions...
20) First rain
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Abby moves with her family to Israel, where it does not rain all summer, she misses her grandmother and remembers the fun they used to have splashing in puddles together.