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Diverse Teen Reads: Fiction Featuring Jewish Characters |
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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. Simultaneous eBook.
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Things that grow
by Meredith Goldstein
The Boston Globe “Love Letters” columnist and author of Chemistry Lessons follows the experiences of a girl who learns about life and love while on a road trip to scatter her late grandmother’s ashes in favorite gardens. 25,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Color Me In
by Natasha Diaz
A coming-of-age story of friendship, first romance and religious intolerance finds a 16-year-old girl in an affluent New York City suburb confronting her biracial identity for the first time when she relocates to her divorced mom's family home in Harlem.
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Cursed
by Karol Ruth Silverstein
Depicts young teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with her recent chronic illness diagnosis, which comes amid family upheaval and challenges at school.
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Girl on the ferris wheel
by Julie Halpern
"Tenth graders Eliana and Dmitri could not be more different. He's an outgoing, self-confident drummer in a punk band called Unexpected Turbulence. Eliana is introspective and thoughtful, and a movie buff who is living with depression. Dmitri quite literally falls for Eliana when he sees her in gym class and slams into a classmate. The pair then navigate the ins and outs of first love. Exciting, scary, unexpected, and so much more difficult than they ever imagined. They say opposites attract, but they soon realize that there is so much they just don't understand about each other. It begs the question: How long can first love possibly last when you're so different?"
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It's a Whole Spiel : love, latkes, and other Jewish stories
by Katherine Locke
From stories of confronting their relationships with Judaism to rom-coms with a side of bagels and lox, It's a Whole Spiel features one story after another that says yes, we are Jewish, but we are also queer, and disabled, and creative, and political, and adventurous, and anything we want to be.
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You Asked for Perfect
by Laura Silverman
When a failed calculus quiz threatens his valedictorian standing, Ariel secretly gets a tutor, Amir, before their unexpected romance forces Ariel to consider what he is willing to sacrifice in the name of academic perfection.
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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. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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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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Recommended for you
by Laura Silverman
When her boss at the bookstore promises a holiday bonus to whomever sells the most books, an avid reader who needs to fix her broken-down car competes against a charming, fellow-Jewish newcomer whose high sales numbers belie his disinclination to read. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The poetry of secrets
by Cambria Gordon
Set against a backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition, a young Jewish woman in 1481 Trujillo is forced to convert to Catholicism and tolerate the unwanted courtship of a powerful local in spite of her love for another man, whose noble family regards her as tainted. Simultaneous eBook.
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How to pack for the end of the world
by Michelle Falkoff
The Breakfast Club meets We Are the Ants in this timely story for a generation of young activists. If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? This is the question that haunts Amina as she watches new and horrible stories of discord and crisis flash across the news every day. But when she starts at prestigious Gardner Academy, Amina finds a group of like-minded peers to join forces with-fast friends who dedicate their year to learning survival skills from each other, before it's too late. Still, as their prepper knowledge multiplies, so do their regular high school problems, from relationship drama to family issues to friend blow-ups. Juggling the two parts of their lives forces Amina to ask another vital question: Is it worth living in the hypothetical future if it's at the expense of your actual present?
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Kate in Waiting
by Becky Albertalli
Best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker share a love of theater and crushes on the same guys, but when one of their long-distance crushes shows up at their school, real feelings might end their friendship.
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Hope and Other Punchlines
by Julie Buxbaum
Rendered famous by a viral photograph taken of her as a baby against the backdrop of the September 11 attacks, Abbi longs for anonymity at a summer camp job, where a fellow counselor whose own life was shattered by the attacks challenges her to ask difficult questions. By the best-selling author of Tell Me Three Things.
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