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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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    Tam­mar Stein
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    The Oppo­sites of My Jew­ish Year
    L. N. Dion; Julie Olson, illus.
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    Non­fic­tion
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    Marilyn Sachs
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    Facts and Fig­ures About the Mid­dle East
    Lisa McCoy
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    Salina Yoon
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    The Win­ter Witch
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    Glob­al Coun­ter­strike: Inter­na­tion­al Counterterrorism
    Samuel M. Katz
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