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Jewish Voices in Teen Fiction
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Once More with Chutzpah
by Haley Neil
While on a weeklong exchange trip to Israel, Tally struggles with spiraling anxiety, sexual identity and a reexamination of where she fits into the country’s history and the wider Jewish diaspora.
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The City Beautiful
by Aden Polydoros
In 1893 Chicago, after his best friend becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, Alter Rosen is plunged into a nightmare where he is thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past.
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The Papercutter
by Cindy Rizzo
A deeply polarized and ungovernable United States of America has separated into two nations--the God Fearing States (GFS) and the United Progressive Regions (UPR). Judith Braverman, a teenager living in an Orthodox Jewish community in the GFS, is not only a talented artist accomplished in the ancient craft of papercutting, she also has the gift of seeing into peoples' souls--and can tell instantly if someone is good or evil.
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Alma Presses Play
by Tina Cane
In 1980s New York, half-Chinese, half-Jewish Alma, whose life is a series of halfways, uses her Walkman to get through the challenges thrown her way until she is ready to press play on the soundtrack of her life.
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Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen
by Kate McGovern
When she has to repeat fifth grade due to her reading troubles, Maple Mehta-Cohen uses her storytelling skills to convince her classmates that she has been kept back as a special teacher’s assistant until the lie catches up to her.
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How to Find What You're Not Looking For
by Veera Hiranandani
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.
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Devil Darling Spy
by Matt Killeen
Sarah Goldstein--Jewish orphan turned secret weapon in the resistance against the Nazis--is hunting down a rogue German doctor whose germ warfare experiment could kill thousands with a single syringe. But her journey through Central Africa reveals the ravages of colonialism and exposes darker truths about her own allies than Sarah could've ever imagined.
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Today Tonight Tomorrow
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
A bitter rivalry between two overachieving high school seniors erupts after one of them is named valedictorian on a day that finds them unexpectedly teaming up and falling for each other while competing against their fellow graduates during a farewell tour of Seattle.
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We Can't Keep Meeting Like This
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Thrown together with Tarek, a cater-waiter, wedding after wedding, harpist Quinn discovers why he never responded to her email in which she confessed her crush on him and realizes that maybe love isn’t the enemy after all.
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The Light in Hidden Places
by Sharon Cameron
Secretly falling in love with the son of Jewish grocers in 1943 Poland, a young Catholic singer is devastated when the family is arrested by Nazis who requisition her house, complicating her effort to protect her beloved’s hidden brother.
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The Assignment
by Liza. Wiemer
An exploration of anti-Semitism, inspired by a real-life incident, finds two students refusing to participate in a debate assignment about World War II’s infamous “Final Solution” genocide plan when it requires them to investigate and represent Nazi perspectives. By the award-winning author of Hello?
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The Way Back
by Gavriel Savit
Sent by the Angel of Death into the Jewish Far Country’s land of the transient dead, two teens make pacts with ancient demons and declare war on Death himself to reclaim their lives, in a tale based on folk tradition by the author of Anna and the Swallow Man. Simultaneous eBook.
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They Went Left
by Monica Hesse
Navigating injuries and trauma after being liberated from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in 1945 Germany, 18-year-old Zofia joins other survivors to keep a promise to find her brother. By the award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat.
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28 days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
by David Safier
The award-winning writer of television’s Berlin, Berlin presents a historical novel inspired by true events that traces the experiences of a Holocaust-era teen in the Warsaw Ghetto who joins a band of Resistance fighters to rise up against occupying Nazi forces.
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