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A sweet board book introduction to simple words and phrases in Ladino. (Board Book Age 2-4)

A family preparing for an unspecified Jewish holiday demonstrates the process of making challah from start to finish. (Picture Book Age 4-8)

The true story of Eliza Davis, a 19th century Jewish woman, convinced the popular novelist Charles Dickens to discontinue Jewish stereotypes and include positive portrayals of British Jews in his books. (Children's Nonfiction Age 4-8)

A biography of the founder of the Yiddish Book Center, which has rescued over 1.5 million Yiddish books and preserved them for future generations. (Children's Nonfiction Age 4-8)

A South Asian cooking class brings Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a white Jewish girl together who overcome their differences to create a British-Pakistani fusion cuisine for a cooking competition. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Told in three different voices, a group of middle schoolers try to unravel the mystery of anti-Semitic vandalism that appears on school property. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

A solitary girl whose family owns a Jewish funeral parlor befriends a boy grieving a difficult loss. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

A girl who prefers not to be the center of attention navigates school and family challenges when her mom pushes her into a Bat Mitvah she isn't totally ready for. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

A middle school girl helps a classmate plan a Bat Mitzvah ceremony while dealing with a dybbuk (or ghost) haunting her family's Orthodox Jewish bathhouse. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

A Jewish middle schooler raised by a secular mom and Catholic dad decides to have a bat mitzvah as a way to learn more about Jewish culture and heritage. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

A bar mitzvah volunteer project to befriend a terminally ill peer helps a shy middle schooler with a medical condition that causes a receding chin come out of his shell and process some long-buried grief. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

A girl who defines herself as a "part time Jew" learns more about her heritage when she develops magical powers while preparing for her bat mitzvah. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

A Jewish/Muscogee teen embraces both sides of her heritage when she runs off to Oklahoma to learn more about her dad's Indigenous side of the family. (Young Teen Graphic Novel Grades 5-7)

A graphic novel memoir starring a Mexican Jewish teen whose dreams of pursuing a comedy career on SNL are hampered by a medical condition that requires him to find a sport to maintain his physical health. (Young Teen Graphic Novel Grades 5-7)