This beloved coming-of-age classic follows Margaret’s journey through adolescence and faith as she navigates a move from New York City to New Jersey. Her relatable experiences with puberty, peer pressure and journey to self-acceptance have inspired…
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Children's Books for Jewish American Heritage Month
Browse our selection of children's books to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month.
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- Filled with adorable illustrations, Challah Day by Charlotte Offsay mixes humor and joyful rhymes to celebrate a family tradition of making challah. Perfect as a read-aloud, and it includes a challah recipe at the end!
- This poignant and uplifting true story of a fire in New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary library recounts how a diverse community came together to save the stories from oblivion.
- Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen is a beautifully illustrated middle-grade graphic novel that explores the complexities of growing up between two cultures—Jewish and Muscogee (Creek). Through the story of 12-year-old Mia, who seeks to connect with…
- Refugee follows the intertwined stories of Josef, a Jewish boy fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Isabel, a Cuban girl escaping political unrest in 1994 and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy seeking safety from civil war in 2015. Each child embarks on a…
- Zachary eagerly anticipates his baby sister's naming ceremony, encountering neighbors along the way who inquire about her name, which remains a delightful secret until the big reveal at the synagogue.
- A children's picture book that chronicles the lives of five children from different cultural backgrounds—Jewish, Italian, Puerto Rican, Chinese and others—who grow up in the same building on New York City's Lower East Side across five decades.
- Sweet Babe! by Robin Rosenthal is a vibrant picture book that captures a Jewish grandmother's exuberant adoration for her grandchild, filled with playful Yiddish expressions and affectionate praise.
- A middle-grade novel in verse that follows Anna, a bullied girl who communicates with ghosts, as she uncovers family secrets and learns to embrace her unique abilities with the support of her beloved grandmother, Bubbe.
- Told through multiple POVs, Linked tells the story of a middle school vandalized with swastikas. As more swastikas appear, students start a project to create 6 million paper links to commemorate Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust. Korman tackles…
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