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Children’s Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library Katherine Paterson; Sally Deng, illus.
Nonfiction Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II Robert M. Edsel Bret Witter
Nonfiction Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Sharon Ann Musher
Nonfiction The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival and Hope on Israel’s Borderlands Amir Tibon