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Author: Karen Pokras Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ® ISBN: 1728433096 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Danny Wexler, the only Jewish boy in his blue-collar town during the late 1970s, is obsessed with the Bermuda Triangle. When a local child goes missing, Danny's convinced it's connected to an old Bermuda Triangle theory involving UFOs. With his two best friends and their Spacetron telescope, Danny heads to his backyard to investigate. But hunting for extraterrestrials is complicated, and it doesn't help that his friend Nicholas's mom doesn't want her son hanging out with a Jewish boy. Equipped with his super-secret spy notebook, Danny sets out to fight both the aliens and the growing anti-Semitism in the town, in hopes of mending his divided community.
Author: Karen Pokras Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ® ISBN: 1728433096 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Danny Wexler, the only Jewish boy in his blue-collar town during the late 1970s, is obsessed with the Bermuda Triangle. When a local child goes missing, Danny's convinced it's connected to an old Bermuda Triangle theory involving UFOs. With his two best friends and their Spacetron telescope, Danny heads to his backyard to investigate. But hunting for extraterrestrials is complicated, and it doesn't help that his friend Nicholas's mom doesn't want her son hanging out with a Jewish boy. Equipped with his super-secret spy notebook, Danny sets out to fight both the aliens and the growing anti-Semitism in the town, in hopes of mending his divided community.
Author: Wendy Wan-Long Shang Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 1338037749 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
Rosenberg and Wan-Long Shang tell the story of a boy caught in the middle of cultures, friends, and growing up Chinese-Jewish-American in this hilariously witty and heartwarming coming-of-age. David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot on his plate. Preparing for his upcoming bar mitzvah would be enough work even if it didn't involve trying to please his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers, who argue about everything. But David just wants everyone to be happy.That includes his friend Scott, who is determined to win their upcoming trivia tournament but doesn't like their teammate -- and David's best friend -- Hector. Scott and David begin digging a fallout shelter just in case this Cold War stuff with the Soviets turns south... but David's not so convinced he wants to spend forever in an underground bunker with Scott. Maybe it would be better if Hector and Kelli Ann came with them. But that would mean David has to figure out how to stand up for Hector and talk to Kelli Ann. Some days, surviving nuclear war feels like the least of David's problems.
Author: Anna Leigh Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm) ISBN: 1541542614 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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"US Olympian Aly Raisman is a leader in and out of the gym. She has risen to great prominence as an outspoken voice against sexual assault. This title covers the most fascinating details of her life as a gold-winning gymnast"--
Author: Kiersi Burkhart Publisher: Darby Creek ISBN: 1512430900 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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Twelve-year-old Rivka is tired of everything about being Jewish, but during a summer at Quartz Creek Ranch, she is inspired to explore and embrace her heritage.
Author: Tammy Lovell Publisher: ISBN: 9781735797205 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 100
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After Jasmine's parents die in a house fire, she is forced to live in an orphanage in Macon, Georgia. One day she discovers a mysterious black hole that takes her time traveling around the globe. She is part of a group of children from London traveling to the country to escape the dangers of WWII. She meets Dr. Martin Luther King and survives the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. She learns what it's like to be a girl in the SWAT Valley under the Taliban's rule. She travels with the Choctaw tribe on the Trail of Tears, and she lives with refugees waiting to cross the border into America. Will Jasmine find her way to a forever home? This story visits some difficult times in history and gently asks us what it means to be a friend and what it truly means to be at home.
Author: Adam Borba Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0316542571 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
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Harkening to classics such as Roald Dahl's The BFG, this heartwarming story highlights the power of friendship and the importance of finding your voice. Carl Chesterfield wishes he could speak up—whether that means being honest with his father about the family's new (and failing) food truck, reaching out to a potential friend, or alerting others to the fact that monsters might be secretly overrunning his hometown of Pittsburgh. There's plenty to fret over. And plenty to question. When a flyer about a mysterious monster-seeking group called the Midnight Brigade catches his eye, Carl sees an opportunity to find answers. Little does he know, his curiosity will lead him to find an incredible discovery under one of his city's magnificent bridges and to be bolder than he ever imagined. Chock-full of humor and heart, this is the quirky tale of three unexpected friends and the crankiest troll with a heart of gold.
Author: Tammar Stein Publisher: Millbrook Press ISBN: 1728405505 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 183
Book Description
It's Yom Kippur Eve in 1973, and twelve-year-old Beni thinks his biggest problem is settling in at his new school in the Golan, where his family moved at the end of the Six-Day War. But on Yom Kippur, shocking news comes over the radio: a stunning strike on Israel has begun, led by a coalition of Arab states. In the blink of an eye, Beni's older brother Motti is off to war, leaving Beni behind with his mother and father. As bombs drop around Beni and his family, they flee to safety, every day hoping for news of Motti and the developments of the war. Beni must find a way to aid the war effort in his own way, proving that he too can be a hero, even as he learns along the way that there is dignity in every person, including the people he considers the enemy.
Author: Gregory Bassham Publisher: ISBN: 9780071101547 Category : Critical thinking Languages : en Pages : 497
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Through the use of humour, fun exercises, and a plethora of innovative and interesting selections from writers such as Dave Barry, Al Franken, J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as from the film 'The Matrix', this text hones students' critical thinking skills.
Author: Jai Chakrabarti Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0525658920 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 303
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A dazzling novel—set in early 1970's New York and rural India—the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of World War II, and a searing examination of one man's search for forgiveness and acceptance. “Looks deeply at the echoes and overlaps among art, resistance, love, and history ... an impressive debut.” —Meg Wolitzer, best-selling author of The Female Persuasion New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk's oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Travelling there alone to collect his friend's ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest against the government—the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis. Torn between the survivor's guilt he has carried for decades and his feelings for Lucy (who, unbeknownst to him, is pregnant with his child), Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves. An unforgettable love story, a provocative exploration of the role of art in times of political upheaval, and a deeply moving reminder of the power of the past to shape the present, A Play for the End of the World is a remarkable debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.
Author: Karen Pokras
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