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As the daughter of a prominent judge of Khazaria, twelve-year-old Ziva is expected to focus on learning etiquette and decorum in hopes of finding a good husband. But she doesn't care about any of that. Instead, she spends her days with her twin brother, Pesah, as they work to try to find a cure for his leprosy. Now Pesah's getting worse. The best doctors have given him mere weeks to live, and even more alarming, Pesah has a vision: the Angel of Death...
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Although thirteen-year-old aspiring actor Zevi would like to keep his psychic abilities a secret, he may be forced to use them when a famous actor's life is endagered on a movie set.
"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, thirteen-year-old Zevi uses his psychic abilities to save a famous actor's life on a movie set."--
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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...
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I survived volume 9
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In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
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Green Bean Books
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2023.
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"Jews are no longer safe in Iraq. When are you going to get it through your thick head?" It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Salman Shasha and his family have to leave their comfortable home in Baghdad to resettle in Israel. The 'Promised Land" turns out not to be what they dreamed of, though, and from a refugee camp the uprooted family have to work together to rebuild their lives. Trying to find his feet in the unwelcoming new country, Salman misses swimming,...
10) Safiyyah's war
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Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2024.
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"War comes to the streets of Paris and Safiyyah's life changes for ever. Her best friend's family have fled, and the bombing makes her afraid to leave the mosque where she lives. But when her father is arrested by the Nazis for his secret Resistance work, it falls to Safiyyah to run the dangerous errands around the city. It's not long before hundreds of persecuted Jews seek sanctuary at the mosque. Can Safiyyah find the courage to enter the treacherous...
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Thames & Hudson
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2023
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"Eitan lives in a small town. The comings and goings of his neighbors and his family, the time he spends playing with his best friend, Rivka, his approaching violin performance in the town theater, all give his life rhythm. But Eitan is afraid. Afraid of the men in uniform who built walls around his town and afraid of what happens to people who leave through the gates and never return... This sensitive introduction to the Holocaust for young readers...
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