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2) Challah day!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"From kneading sticky dough to gathering with family around the table, Challah Day celebrates family, food, heritage, and tradition! Join this happy family as they bake delicious braided egg bread for their Friday night Shabbat dinner. Messy flour and laughter abound. The scent of warm bread fills the house. Grandma and Grandpa bring the candles and hugs. Parents, kids, and baby too, can read this kid-friendly, rhyming recipe together."--
3) Rising
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Melt into the nooks and crannies of this book's unhurried pages, offering a place to rest and a pregnant pause for counting your many blessings-current and imminent! Here, a child and a mother measure, mix, knead, shape, and tuck their dough under a towel like a sleeping baby. Then, as they do every week, they wait while their dough rises, soon to be baked and gratefully shared at a Shabbat gathering with loved ones. Author Sidura Ludwig's poetic...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Sydney Taylor Book Award
Titles Worth Trying: Historical [Middle School]
Sydney Taylor Book Award
Titles Worth Trying: Historical [Middle School]
Description
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.
Author
Publisher
Green Bean Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"What does your Shabbat look like? Join this little boy and his adorable beagle puppy Ellie for a Shabbat spent in the sun, and learn about traditions and the importance of quality time with family, friends and neighbors. After a very busy day - walking to the synagogue and back, a delicious picnic with Gran and Uncle Dave, playing on the beach with Sarina - one by one, everyone drifts off to sleep..."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Shira dreams of a life onstage, and twin sister Esther wants to devote her life to God, so they decide to switch places to pursue their dreams--butt the two discover they need to work together to accomplish their goals and bring their families and community together.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's Passover time and everything seems the same, but there's one major problem. Poppy is gone. And it's just not Passover without Poppy. Mama says he's still here, and Aunty says to keep looking, but where? This young child searches and searches but can't find Poppy anywhere. All of Poppy's favorite people are here though, and so are the special traditions he taught them. Suddenly she starts to realize that maybe, just maybe, Poppy is here, too...and...
Author
Publisher
Xist Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"The Sephardic Jewish custom of naming a child after their paternal or maternal grandparent is depicted in a warm and vibrant story about a young boy who has many cousins with his name, Jojo. "Jojo Nissim" is proud that he has many cousins who share his name. "Big Jojo" is his oldest cousin who can do lots of things like ride his scooter super fast. "Jojo-man" is another cousin, called so because he loves superheroes. His six-month-old cousin is called...
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hannah was delightful--except when she wasn't. The day before Yom Kippur, Hannah kicks a soccer ball in the living room and breaks her mother's glass apple. Her wise mother, deciding to teach her a lesson in a fun way, writes the numbers 1, 2 and 3 on pieces of paper and puts them on the floor. She shows Hannah how to hop her way through the three steps of an apology: admitting you did something wrong, feeling bad about what you did, and then trying...
Author
Series
Ellie's deli volume 2
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After saving her family's deli from going out of buisness, Ellie is ready to embark on her next mission--plan her friend's bat Mitzvah party!
13) Bitter and sweet
Author
Publisher
Goundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Despite her grandmother's wise words about how moving to a new place can be both bitter and sweet, Hannah feels only bitterness as she tries to get used to her new house. But when she sees the new home in the soft light of the Shabbat candles and a new friend reaches out with a special gift, Hannah begins to realize that sweetness can come from unexpected places. Includes author's note about Jewish traditions.
"When Hannah's family has to move, her...
Author
Publisher
Kalaniot Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"It's the first night of Hanukkah, and Uri's dad is still not home. Where could he be? Meanwhile, the evil King of Darkness and his army are marching closer and closer. They are almost here! Uri and his sister must use all their courage and spirit to bring the light of Hanukkah to the world around them and defeat the darkness."--
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
Author
Publisher
Kalaniot Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this...story, we follow Daniel as he tries to find out where his parents are going and what's inside the mysterious boxes they're carrying. Daniel's imagination runs wild--could there be a new baseball and glove inside? A giant birthday cake? A new toy car? As it turns out, Daniel learns much more than what's in those boxes--he learns the true meaning of giving."--
17) Golem crafters
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Faye has a tough time concentrating in school. It's easier to be silent and fade into the woodwork than take on the challenges of kids at school who mock her bi-racial heritage, and her competitive family at home, none of whom are good listeners. Except possibly for her brother Shiloh, who tries to speak extra so she doesn't have to. The family dynamic is shattered when their uncle and cousin from the Jewish side arrive unannounced to say that it's...
18) No vacancy
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn't eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman's dream, but at least it's an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel's housekeeper, and her Uncle Mordy, who comes to help out for the summer."--
Author
Publisher
Apples & Honey Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's just three days until the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. A young girl and her family are getting ready for the traditional holiday feast. Family and friends gather to help harvest and clean the fall root vegetables, mix them with honey and dried fruits, and cook them into the traditional sweet vegetable stew, called tzimmes, 'for a sweet new year.' It's hard but satisfying work that leaves everyone with aching arms, sore feet...
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