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Chil­dren’s
Chunky Goes to Camp
Yehu­di Mercado
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Chil­dren’s
A Syn­a­gogue Just Like Home
Alice Blumenthal McGinty; Laurel Molk, illus.
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Poet­ry
Dear Selec­tion Committee
Melis­sa Studdard
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Fic­tion
Book­ish People
Susan Coll
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Fic­tion
The Most Like­ly Club
Elyssa Fried­land
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Non­fic­tion
All About Me! My Remark­able Life in Show Business
Mel Brooks
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Fic­tion
Mr. Per­fect on Paper
Jean Meltzer
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Fic­tion
Cult Clas­sic
Sloane Crosley
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Chil­dren’s
Git­ty and Kvetch
Caroline Kusin Pritchard, Ariel Landy (Illustrator)
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Fic­tion
The Matzah Ball
Jean Meltzer
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Search­ing for Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Two Judy Blume Novels

Emi­ly Schneider
February 11, 2022
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Fic­tion
Our Coun­try Friends
Gary Shteyn­gart
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Year­book
Seth Rogen
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Fic­tion
Cheeky: A Head-to-Toe Memoir
Ariel­la Elovic
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Fic­tion
Noth­ing the Same, Every­thing Haunt­ed: The Bal­lad of Motl the Cowboy
Gary Barwin
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Crazy to Leave You
Mar­i­lyn Simon Rothstein
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