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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Bedford Library: Pride Juvenile Fiction
Watertown Teen Room - Middle School Summer Reading Suggestions 2024
Watertown Teen Room - Middle School Summer Reading Suggestions 2024
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Shai, a thirteen-year-old nonbinary homeschooler, attempts to find a "new normal" post-pandemic as they start public school, meet new friends, and learn about their Jewish identity.
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English
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete but not a snob, self-indulgent yet wildly generous. He's the son of one of the country's most powerful and ferociously conservative families, so the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate...
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Publisher
SparkPress, a BookSparks imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to the award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, the Lubinski twins struggle with their roles as women and coming to terms with their family's Holocaust legacy at the same time as political and social upheaval roils through the US.
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Series
Golems and goblins volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Becca's family is in turmoil and her home is haunted by demons, but with the help of her best friends, Naomi and Eitan, and the lessons learned from their last tussle with mythological figures, she is determined to defend her loved ones and save Hanukkah.
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson,...
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