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Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Second-grader Lola has a wonderful family, a great teacher, and the best friend ever, Josh, and they all help her feel better after she is teased and forbidden to play team sports at recess for having accidentally hurt classmate Juan during a soccer game.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.
9) In my pocket
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fear and uncertainty afflict everyone on the boat on the morning in July 1939 when Jewish children sail from Holland to the safety of a new life in Scotland.
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Publisher's Group West
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells the Jewish folktale about a man who asks the village wise woman how his family can become happy, as they are miserable living in such a tiny house, and her answer involves six chickens, a cow, a goat, and a rooster.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Having heard about Thanksgiving in school, nine-year-old Rivka tries to convince her immigrant family and her rabbi that it is a holiday for all Americans, Jews and non-Jews alike.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle. Based on a memory from the author's childhood.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books
Pub. Date
1994, ©1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy counts the candles on the family menorah and the lights he sees in the world around him on each night of Hanukkah. Includes information on the history and significance of the celebration.
18) The blessing cup
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A single china cup from a tea set left behind when Jews were forced to leave Russia helps hold a family together through generations of living in America, reminding them of the most important things in life.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this variation of a Yiddish folktale, a spoiled prince has a fit and assumes the speech and mannerisms of a rooster until he is locked in a room for seven days with a frail grizzled old man.
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