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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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Chil­dren’s
Hap­py Birth­day, World: A Rosh Hashanah Celebration
Latifa Berry Kropf; Liz Carlson, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
In God’s Hands
Lawrence Kushner; Gary Schmidt; Matthew J. Baek, illus.
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Miriam Chaikin; Leonid Gore, illus.
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The Ark
Matthew Reinhart
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Anne Frank
Josephine Poole; Angela Barrett, illus.
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Kremena Spengler
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The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden
Robert J. Avrech
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Ariel Sharon
Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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Non­fic­tion
Mak­ing the Bible Mod­ern: Chil­dren’s Bibles and Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion in Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry America
Penny Schine Gold
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Sto­ries of Heav­en and Earth: Bible Heroes in Con­tem­po­rary Chil­dren’s Literature
Hara E. Person and Diane G. Person
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Pini the Pitch­er: A Sto­ry for Hanukkah
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Chaya M. Burstein
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Incan­ta­tion
Alice Hoff­man
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The Jew­ish Sto­ry Find­er: A Guide To 363 Tales List­ing Sub­jects and Sources
Sharon Barcan Elswit

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