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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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Wait­ing for Eugene
Sallie Lowenstein
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Chil­dren’s
Passover Splen­dor: Cher­ished Objects for the Seder Table
Barbara Rush
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Chil­dren’s
A Touch of Passover
Ari Sollish; Boruch Becker, illus
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Chil­dren’s
Ten Tzedakah Pennies
Joni Klein-Higger; Tova Leff, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
Angel Secrets
Miriam Chaikin; Leonid Gore, illus.
Chil­dren’s
The Ark
Matthew Reinhart
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Chil­dren’s
Anne Frank
Josephine Poole; Angela Barrett, illus.
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Israel: A Ques­tion and Answer Book
Kremena Spengler
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The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden
Robert J. Avrech
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Chil­dren’s
Ariel Sharon
Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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Chil­dren’s
Bro­ken Song
Kathryn Lasky
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Chil­dren’s
Con­fes­sions of a Clos­et Catholic
Sarah Dar­er Littman
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Chil­dren’s
Dinosaur on Hanukkah
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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