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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas volume 1
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English
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Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Young Adults
Jewish American Heritage - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Jewish American Heritage - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
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Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw coming.
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English
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Jewish American Heritage - Children
National Hobby Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
National Hobby Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
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When elderly Mr. Tempkin's plan to thwart the squirrels that have been raiding his birdfeeder goes awry, his neighbor Marky learns how special a friendship can be.
12) First rain
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English
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When Abby moves with her family to Israel, where it does not rain all summer, she misses her grandmother and remembers the fun they had in the rain.
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English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
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Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
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Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.
15) Ready to fall
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Max, struggling to come to terms with his mother's death, is cast as the ghost in Hamlet and finds strength in his new theater friends.
18) Molly's Pilgrim
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English
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Told to make a doll like a Pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom--much to Molly's embarrassment.
20) Grandma's latkes
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Pub. Date
[1992]
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English
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Grandma explains the meaning of Hanukkah while showing Molly how to cook latkes for the holiday.
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