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Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez-a biracial Jewish girl-finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career. When she discovers a forgotten Jewish cemetery behind her aunt's cottage, she meets the ghost of a kindhearted boy named Benjamin, who died over a century ago. As Ilana restores Benjamin's grave, he introduces...
182) Bully on the bus
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, A division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
She's big. She's smart. She's mean. She's the bully on the bus. She picks on me and I don't like it. But I don't know how to make her stop. The bully on the bus taunts seven-year-old Leroy, then silences him with threats of worse to come. To distract him, his mum introduces him to the adventures in The Big Bad Book of Fairytales.
183) Applesauce weather
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the first apple falls from the tree, Faith and Peter know that it's applesauce weather, even though Peter is getting a little old for such things. It also means Uncle Arthur should be here to tell his stories, with a twinkle in his eye as he spins tales about how he came to have a missing finger. But this is the first year without Aunt Lucy, and when Uncle Arthur arrives, there's no twinkle to be found and no stories waiting to be told. Faith...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The child of Jewish immigrants, Ethel Greenglass grows up on New York City's Lower East Side; she dreams of being an actress and a singer but finds romance and excitement in the arms of the charming Julius Rosenberg. Both are ardent supporters of rights for workers, but are they spies passing atomic secrets to the Soviets? As she faces the electric chair in 1953, she tells her story through an imagined series of poems.