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Young Adult

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Fic­tion
Line Change
Mark Lichtenfeld
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Fic­tion
Next Year in Israel
Sarah Bridgeton
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Fic­tion
Lau­ren Yanof­sky Hates the Holocaust
Leanne Lieber­man
Essay

Vic­ki Oran­sky Wit­ten­stein on Research­ing For the Good of Mankind

To cel­e­brate the pub­li­ca­tion of her teen non­fic­tion book, For the Good of Mankind?: The Shame­ful His­to­ry of Human Med­ical Exper­i­men­ta­tion (Lern­er Pub­lish­ing…
Vic­ki Oran­sky Wittenstein
November 5, 2013
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Fic­tion
Danc­ing in the Dark
Robyn Bavati
Cover of Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves, and Other Female Villains
Non­fic­tion
Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Mur­der­ess­es, Thieves, and Oth­er Female Villains
Jane Yolen & Heidi E. Y. Stemple; Rebecca Guay, illus.
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Non­fic­tion
What Made Sam­my Run?
Sam Silberberg; adapted by Carolyn Buan
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Non­fic­tion
We Are Their Voice: Young Peo­ple Respond to the Holocaust
Kathy Kacer, ed.
Cover of Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
Non­fic­tion
Death March Escape: The Remark­able Sto­ry of a Man who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
Jack J. Hersch
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Fic­tion
Vic­to­ry: Resis­tance Book 3
Carla Jablonski; Leland Purvis, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
The Sum­mer Every­thing Changed
Ruth Lercher Bornstein
Interview

Inter­view with Diane Heiman

JBC’s Chris­tine Maas­dam inter­views Diane Heiman, co-writer with Liz Sune­by of It’s a…It’s a…It’s a Mitz­vah and The Mitz­vah Project Book (Jew­ish Lights…
Chris­tine Maasdam
February 26, 2013
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Fic­tion
What Makes Us
Rafi Mittlefehldt
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Fic­tion
Cas­tle of Con­crete: A Novel
Katia Raina
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A Dan­ger to Her­self and Others
Alyssa Shein­mel
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Non­fic­tion
Israel Mat­ters
Mitchell Bard
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