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Middle Grade

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Fic­tion
Mighty Inside
Sundee T. Frazier
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Fic­tion
Ripped Away
Shirley Ver­nick
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Fic­tion
The But­ton Box
Brid­get Hodder
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Fic­tion
Flight: A Nov­el of a Dar­ing Escape Dur­ing World War II
Vanessa Harbour
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Non­fic­tion
Alias Anna: A True Sto­ry of Out­wit­ting the Nazis
Susan Hood
Greg Daw­son
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Fic­tion
When Light­nin’ Struck
Betsy R. Rosenthal
Essay

Lit­tle Nods and Food for Thought: Inte­grat­ing Jew­ish Char­ac­ters and Judaism into Mid­dle Grade Novels

A. J. Sass
March 22, 2022
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Fic­tion
Linked
Gordon Korman
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Non­fic­tion
Why Is Every­body Yelling?: Grow­ing Up in My Immi­grant Family
Marisabina Russo
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Fic­tion
Call Across the Sea
Kathy Kac­er
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Fic­tion
Eddie What­ev­er
Lois Ruby
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Fic­tion
Com­ing of Age: 13 B’nai Mitz­vah Stories
Jonathan Rosen and Henry Herz (Editors)
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Fic­tion
Avi­va vs. the Dybbuk
Mari Lowe
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Fic­tion
The Rene­gade Reporters
Elis­sa Brent Weissman
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The Genius Under the Table: Grow­ing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Eugene Yelchin
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Res­cue
Jennifer A. Nielsen
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