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Lin­da R. Silver

Lin­da R. Sil­ver is a spe­cial­ist in Jew­ish children’s lit­er­a­ture. She is edi­tor of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries’ Jew­ish Val­ues­find­er, www​.ajl​jew​ish​val​ues​.org, and author of Best Jew­ish Books for Chil­dren and Teens: A JPS Guide (The Jew­ish Pub­li­ca­tion Soci­ety, 2010) and The Jew­ish Val­ues Find­er: A Guide to Val­ues in Jew­ish Children’s Lit­er­a­ture (Neal-Schu­man, 2008).
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Edie Stoltz Zolkower; Richard Johnson, illus.
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Jerusalem Sky: Stars, Cross­es, and Crescents
Mark Pod­w­al
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Tam­mar Stein
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L. N. Dion; Julie Olson, illus.
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Diane Levin Rauchwerger; Jason Wolff, illus.
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Dyb­buk: A Version
Barbara Rogasky; Leonard Everett Fisher, illus.
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Facts and Fig­ures About the Mid­dle East
Lisa McCoy
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My First Menorah
Salina Yoon
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The Win­ter Witch
Clay Bonnyman Evans; Robert Bender, illus.
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Glob­al Coun­ter­strike: Inter­na­tion­al Counterterrorism
Samuel M. Katz
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In God’s Hands
Lawrence Kushner; Gary Schmidt; Matthew J. Baek, illus.

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