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65) The return
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Juniper
Pub. Date
1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Desta and the other members of her Falasha family, Jews suffering from discrimination in Ethiopia, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Whistle/Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
More than 50 stories on the Jewish experience this century. They chronicle the lives of Old Country ancestors, refugees, immigrants or just simple wanderers like the anti- hero Fidelman. The settings are on both sides of the Atlantic.
72) Holy lands
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A witty, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching epistolary novel, soon to be a major motion picture starring James Caan, Rosanna Arquette, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, about a dysfunctional family--led by a Jewish pig farmer in Israel--struggling to love and accept each other. As comic as it is deeply moving, Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colorful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is an aging Jewish cardiologist who...
Series
Studies in Jewish civilization volume Volume 25
Publisher
Purdue University Press West
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
76) The fixer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
In Tsarist Russia, Yakov is accused of a ritual murder he did not commit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. But Bruno decides there must be more to this desolate new place than meets...
