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    Marge Kaplan

    Marge Kaplan is a retired Eng­lish as a Sec­ond Lan­guage teacher. She is a con­sul­tant for the children’s lit­er­a­ture group for the Roseville, MN school sys­tem and is a sto­ry­teller of Jew­ish tales.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Jews of the Wild West a Mul­ti­cul­tur­al True Story
    Kay Miller
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Stranger With­in Sarah Stein
    Thane Rosen­baum
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    Non­fic­tion
    Sur­viv­ing Your Bar/​Bat Mitz­vah: The Ulti­mate Insid­er’s Guide
    Matt Axel­rod
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Sto­ry of Yid­dish: How a Mish-mosh of Lan­guages Saved the Jews
    Neal Karlen
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    Chil­dren’s
    Son­dra’s Search
    Ester Katz Silvers
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Mozart Question
    Michael Morpurgo; Michael Foreman, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    Losers
    Matthue Roth
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    Chil­dren’s
    Rashi’s Daugh­ter: Secret Scholar
    Mag­gie Anton
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    Har­vest of Light
    Allison Ofanansky; Eliyahu Alpern, photographer
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    The Mir­a­cle Jar
    Audrey Penn; Lea Lyon, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Shep­herd’s Granddaughter
    Anne Laurel Carter
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Pales­tin­ian Nation­al Authority
    John C. Hall, Adam Woog, Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.
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    The Book of Amaz­ing Fact and Feats 2: The Creator’s World and All That Fills It
    Natan Hurvitz and Aharon Yosef Hoffman; Nehemiah Klein, trans.
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    Kathy Kac­er
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