Eleven-year-old Meskerm, half-Ethiopian and half-American, faces prejudice when she enters a new school just as Israel is coping with a large influx of new immigrants from Ethiopia.

A zombie who has stopped being frightening travels the world but finally finds that the Dead Sea is the perfect place to relax. Includes facts about the Dead Sea and Israel.

"Every Tuesday, Yotam's grandfather takes him to a coffee shop after kindergarten, where Grandpa Amnon drinks coffee and Yotam likes to draw. One day, Yotam has a question: "Grandpa, what's on your face?" Grandpa Amnon explains that the lines on his face are wrinkles, and they are something that grownups get. He tells Yotam the stories of how he got each of his wrinkles. Some reasons for Grandpa's wrinkles are sad, like when Grandma Dina was sick....

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.

Merle and Pearl, still in the clutches of their squirrelnapper, ride on a talking donkey, Dusty, from Nazareth to Ein Karem while Dr. Gomez and Michael follow their trail.

"An American immigrant to Israel misses Thanksgiving and is introduced to the holiday of Sigd"--

"Chimp tries to talk his friends, Ellie and Kanga, out of escaping from the Biblical Zoo to find a seder, but ends up joining the escapade. How will they escape and where will they find a seder to attend?"--

Professor von Volt plans to send Geronimo and his time traveling friends back to King Solomon's court to borrow a ring that supposedly will restore harmony to Mouse Island and balance the environment--but they soon find themselves taking an unplanned detour through Napoleon's court, a Viking village, and the Minotaur's labyrinth, before finally arriving before the wise King.

"Clare was just a regular American girl who only had to deal with normal middle-school problems--staying under the teacher's radar, bullying her sister and the uncool kids at school, outsmarting her clueless parents. But that was before she died and came back to life as a cat, in a place with a whole different set of rules for survival. Soon she is in the middle of a complicated, unpredictable and dangerous situation. Israeli soldiers with guns, angry...

"Merle and Pearl have been separated! While Pearl is back with the Gomez family, Merle finds himself scurrying through the Holy Land with Dave, a honey-loving, talking lizard. Together, Merle and Dave must brave the perils of the Israeli wilderness in the hopes of reuniting Merle with his friends and foiling Dr. Simon's evil plan. Get ready for more daring escapes, hilarious jokes, and squirrel origami as Merle and Pearl try to make their way back...