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Devil's Arithmetic

Devil's Arithmetic more books like this

by Jane Yolen

Bored during a Passover ceremony and tired of her grandfather's constant reflection on the Holocaust, 12-year-old Hannah finds her self transported through time from America in 1988 to Poland in 1942. There Hannah finds that she is no longer Hannah, but a girl named Chaya who is being sent to a concentration camp.

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Mrs. Katz and Tush

Mrs. Katz and Tush more books like this

by Patricia Polacco

Feeling sorry for his elderly, widowed neighbor Mrs. Katz, a boy named Larnel brings her a kitten to help ease her loneliness. Mrs. Katz agrees to keep the kitten only if Larnel promises to help her care for the pet. As they raise the kitten, now named Tush, the Jewish Mrs. Katz and the African-American Larnel develop a lifelong, loving bond and a ...

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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind more books like this

by Suzanne Fisher Staples

This novel set in the Cholistan Desert of Pakistan features Shabanu, an 11-year-old girl who is the youngest member of her family. Shabanu and her sister, Phulan, have already been promised in marriage to two brothers, and although Shabanu knows it is her familial duty to marry, she doesn't want to give up her freedom and her work tending her ...

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Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family History

Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family History more books like this

by Carolivia Herron, Jeremy Tugeau (Illustrator)

An elderly black grandmother passes on the story of the family's Jewish origins to her young granddaughter, Carol Olivia. As family members flee the Spanish Inquisition, are kidnapped by pirates and eventually sail to America, one daughter in each generation is given the name Olivia, from the Hebrew Shulamit meaning ?peace, ? to honor the Jewish ...

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Five go to Mystery Moor

Five go to Mystery Moor more books like this

by Enid Blyton

Mystery Moor isn't called by that name for nothing - as the Five are about to discover! There's something dangerous out there, and the gang mean to find out what it is, but they need some help. The travellers camped on the moor are no use - in fact, they're downright unfriendly. So the Famous Five have no other choice: they'll have to risk the ...

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The Moon Lady

The Moon Lady more books like this

by Amy Tan (Read by)

An excerpt from the novel THE JOY LUCK CLUB presented in picture-book format. A Chinese grandmother now living in America shares a story with her three grandchildren about her youth in China. While celebrating at the Moon Festival, 7-year-old Ying-ying becomes separated from her family. She has many adventures, but when she meets the magical Moon ...

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Cajun Night Before Christmas Ornament

Cajun Night Before Christmas Ornament more books like this

by Trosclair, Howard Jacobs (Editor), James Rice (Illustrator)

A miniature book of Cajun Night Before Christmas to hang on your tree (hanger provided).

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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze more books like this

by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

The adventures of a 13-year-old coppersmith's apprentice named Young Fu introduce readers to life in 1920s pre-communist China. During this era, the country struggled to modernize while the people were ruled by competing warlords. In the course of the novel, Young Fu survives cholera and typhus epidemics, nearly drowns in a sudden flood, and comes ...

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Long Way to a New Land

Long Way to a New Land more books like this

by Joan Sandin

The story of a Swedish family's difficult trip to America in 1868.

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Pacific Crossing

Pacific Crossing more books like this

by Gary Soto

A sequel to TAKING SIDES , in which 14-year-old Mexican-American Lincoln Mendoza is selected to take part in a summer exchange program which sends him to Japan. While in Japan, he continues his study of martial arts and becomes deeply involved with his Japanese host family.

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When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street more books like this

by Elsa Okon Rael, Virginia Duncan (Editor), Marjorie Priceman (Illustrator)

This picture book celebrates the life of Jewish immigrants living in New York during the 1930s. When her mother goes to the hospital to have a baby, eight-year-old Zeesie is disappointed that she has to stay with her grandmother (Bubbeh) and grandfather (Zaydeh). Zeesie doesn't mind staying with Bubbeh, but Zaydeh is always cranky and doesn't seem ...

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Gem more books like this

by Emma Kallok, Joel Bower (Illustrator)

A young girl eagerly anticipates the birth of her new brother or sister. When the baby is finally born, the girl gives the baby a name inspired by one of the songs composed by their saxophone -playing neighbor. Color illustrations accompany the text.

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Hanna's Sabbath Dress more books like this

by Itzhak Schweiger-Dmi'el, Ora Eitan (Illustrator), Izhak Schweiger-Dmi'el

Hanna is proud of the beautiful white dress her mother has made for her to wear on the Sabbath and promises to keep it clean. However, she meets an old man struggling to carry a sack of coal and offers to help him. Afterwards, she discovers that her dress is covered with black coal dust. Disappointed that she has broken her promise to her mother, ...

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Always Prayer Shawl more books like this

by Sheldon Oberman

As a young Jewish boy named Adam prepares to immigrate to the United States with his parents, his grandfather gives him a going-away gift--his prayer shawl. His grandfather explains to Adam that the prayer shawl was originally given to him by his own grandfather. Later, after growing up in America, Adam presents the prayer shawl to his own ...

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Irish Night Before Christmas more books like this

by Sarah Kirwan Blazek, James Rice (Illustrator)

You will find no Donner or Cupid or Blitzen, but Ould Neddy the donkey and his small cart. Father Christmas, with his Irish eyes twinkling, ushers in his seven elves and thus begins this Irish tale.

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What Zeesie Saw on Delancey Street more books like this

by Elsa Okon Rael, Lloyd Moss

In this story set in New York City in the 1930s, Zeesie is excited to be attending her first package party--a party held to raise fund for friends, families, and immigrants in the Jewish community. At the party Zeesie learns about the money room--a place where the men anonymously leave or take money according their needs. When Zeesie sneaks into ...

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With All My Heart, with All My Mind: Thirteen Stories about Growing Up Jewish more books like this

by Sandy Asher (Editor), Mark J Asher (Editor), Marc Chagall (Illustrator)

This collection of 13 original stories explores, by means of interviews and biographies, the experience of growing up Jewish.

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Sang Spell more books like this

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

While hitchhiking to his aunt's house in Texas, an orphan named Josh is mugged and left injured on the side of the road. Luckily, Josh is rescued by an older woman who brings him to her village and nurses him back to health. As Josh recovers, he realizes that he is living in a community known as the "Melungeons," a group of "persecuted people with ...

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Sing for Your Father, Su Phan more books like this

by Stella Pevsner, Fay Tang

Su Phan sings for her father when he comes home from work. Su Phan and her family love living in Vietnam where things are safe, but when war ravages their village, Su Phan's life becomes dark and frightening--her father's store is destroyed and he is sent to prison. Now the family must struggle to survive. Will Su Phan ever be able to sing for her ...

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Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa more books like this

by Micol Ostow

Emily is a Jewish girl from the suburbs of New York. Her mother has family in Puerto Rico, but Emily has never had contact with thema- ever. Then Emilyas grandmother dies and Emily is forced to go to the Caribbean for her funeral. Buttoned-up Emily wants nothing to do with her big, noisy Puerto Rican family, until a special person shows her that ...

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Winding Valley Farm more books like this

by Anne Pellowski

A young girl shares pleasures and disappointments with the other members of a large Wisconsin farm family in the early twentieth century.

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The Journey of Pieter and Anna more books like this

by Helen Denboer

After his family emigrates from Holland, Pieter convinces them to help a girl they met on a coral boat who is trying to get to Michigan to find her father.

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Beni's First Wedding more books like this

by Jane Breskin Zalben

Beni is excited to be the ring bearer at his Uncle Izzy's traditional Jewish wedding, but when he trips and loses the ring, he finds a way to make the ceremony even better. Watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations accompany the text, which includes a recipe for Honey Wedding Cake. An appendix explains traditional wedding customs for a variety ...

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Me and Rupert Goody more books like this

by Barbara O'Connor

Jennalee loves working at Uncle Beau's store so she can get away from her crazy family. But when Rupert Goody, a young black man who claims to be Uncle Beau's son comes into town, Jennalee doesn't believe him--she doesn't see how that could be true since Uncle Beau is white. But what scares her most of all is that Uncle Beau will forget all about ...

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The Best Christmas more books like this

by Barbara Cooney (Illustrator), Lee Kingman

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