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Queen of Secrets

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This year, Essie Green’s life is going to be different. She’s made the cheerleading squad and caught the eye of the captain of the football team. However, she...
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Under a Red Sky
Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania

Frances Foster Books
Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is...
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A Family Secret

Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper
While searching his grandmother’s attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his grandmother,...
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The Champion of Children
The Story of Janusz Korczak

Frances Foster Books
In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children...
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The Hat That Wore Clara B.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On Mother’s Sunday at church, Clara B.’s grandma has the most beautiful hat of all the ladies. When people compliment her on it, she says, “Honey, I’m not...
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Full Service

Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper
The times they are a-changin' . . . The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family...
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Anne Hutchinson's Way

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In 1634, young Susanna Hutchinson sailed from England with her family to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where they hoped to practice their religion freely. But...
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Sky Sweeper

Melanie Kroupa Books
Young Takeboki needs a job and the monks in the temple need a flower keeper – so Takeboki sets to work, sweeping up flowers and leaves and creating swirling...
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Hidden Child

Frances Foster Books
A powerful story of survival, loss, and hope Isaac was seven when the Germans invaded France and his life changed forever. First his father was taken away,...
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The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela
Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century Imagine a time when streets were narrow and dirty, towns were surrounded by walls, brigands lurked alongside...

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A Day of Pleasure
Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

Sunburst Paperbacks
An ALA Notable Book. A Day of Pleasure is the winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Children's Books.
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I Once Was a Monkey
Stories Buddha Told

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A colorful introduction to Buddhist fables A monkey, caught in a monsoon, finds shelter in a cave amid the rubble of a temple. The monkey is not alone. A...
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Sholom's Treasure
How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The boy whose stories became Fiddler on the Roof Sholom Aleichem's favorite childhood memory may have been listening as his father read stories aloud on...