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    Essay

    Where Are All the Hap­py Jew­ish Stories?

    Sacha Lamb is a part-time librar­i­an, part-time stu­dent, and part-time YA writer and read­er. She is blog­ging here as part of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe…
    Sacha Lamb
    December 7, 2017
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    Non­fic­tion
    Stormy Seas: Sto­ries of Young Boat Refugees
    Mary Beth Leatherdale; Eleanor Shakespeare, illus.
    Cover of The Most Dangerous Thing
    Fic­tion
    The Most Dan­ger­ous Thing
    Leanne Lieber­man
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    Fic­tion
    By Light of Hid­den Candles
    Daniella Levy
    Cover of Man’s Search For Meaning: Young Adult Edition
    Non­fic­tion
    Man’s Search For Mean­ing: Young Adult Edition
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Cover of Echo After Echo
    Fic­tion
    Echo After Echo
    Amy Rose Capetta
    Cover of I Hate Everyone But You
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    I Hate Every­one But You
    Alli­son Raskin
    Gaby Dunn
    Cover of To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial
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    To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen’s Account of a War Crim­i­nal Trial
    Kathy Kacer and Jordana Lebowitz
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    Chil­dren’s
    Chil­dren of the Holocaust
    Jenny MacKay
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    Fic­tion
    Wolf by Wolf
    Ryan Graudin
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    Fic­tion
    On Black­ber­ry Hill
    Rachel Mann
    Cover of We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
    Chil­dren’s
    We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Stu­dent Resis­tance Move­ment That Defied Adolf Hitler
    Russell Freedman
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    Israel and the Arab World
    Gil Zohar
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    Fic­tion
    Lil­li’s Quest
    Lila Perl
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    Fic­tion
    Lily of the Val­ley: An Amer­i­can Jew­ish Journey
    Xianna Michaels
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    Kiss­ing in America
    Margo Rabb
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