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1) Meet Rebecca
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin eagerly helps her cousin Ana, newly arrived from Russia, to adjust to life in New York City, but when their teacher says the two must sing together at a school assembly, Rebecca worries that her big moment will be ruined.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Rubin worries that her tenth birthday will be ruined because it falls during Passover, but her mother's cousin Max, an actor, takes her with him to a movie studio, where she makes friends with an actress and a set carpenter.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca is thrilled to spend the day at a real movie studio, and when a super, spectacular opportunity presents itself, she is quick to volunteer. But how will this scene play out? Then, on a visit to Coney Island, Rebecca gets the chance to use her acting skills to lighten the mood in an embarrassing situation--and her climbing skills to rescue someone in a dangerous spot. But a factory tour makes Rebecca believe her skills are needed there, too....
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Rubin is growing up in the bustling city of New York in 1914. She dreams of being a star on the silver screen, but her performance this year is on the stage at school. She has to share the spotlight with her cousin Ana, though, and Rebecca fears the audience will laugh instead of applaud. Will Ana hurt or help the performance? Then, being included in a special plan fills Rebecca with joy. But what act of kindness teaches her the true meaning...
Author
Publisher
Lizzie Skurnick Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew; a single uncle findss romance; World War I approaches and the family heads to Rockaway Beach to avoid infection during an outbreak of infantile paralysis.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.
Author
Publisher
Cicada Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Benji and his grandma, Bubbe Rosa, are gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner. As they wander the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan, Bubbe struggles to reconcile the world of her memories with the new realities that surround her. A powerful and affecting story of Jewish identity, of generational divides, of tolerance and acceptance and of a restless city and its inhabitants"--
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What if you, as a girl battling stage fright before a dance recital, suddenly found yourself in Rebecca's world in 1914? Join Rebecca on adventures where the two of you can try out for a vaudeville show, put on a musical, or even sneak into a factory to deliver an important message. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options in this multiple-ending story"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Rebecca attends summer camp in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After having escaped with his family from Nazi-occupied France, Gustave finds a home in New York City, still worried about Marcel, his good friend who he left behind, and surprised to find bigotry in America, too.
18) Audacity
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York. --Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of The Nightingale and, an exquisitely moving novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City. On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, son of two world-famous naturalists--escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling into the unfamiliar rhythms of upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight-knit group of...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
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