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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
    Facts and Fig­ures About the Mid­dle East
    Lisa McCoy
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    Chil­dren’s
    My First Menorah
    Salina Yoon
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    Rebecca Tova Ben-Zvi; Susanna Natti, illus.
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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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    Had Gadya, A Passover Song
    Seymour Chwast, illus.
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    Hanukkah, Shmanukkah!
    Esme Raji Codell; LeUyen Pham, illus.
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    Hap­py Birth­day, World: A Rosh Hashanah Celebration
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    Non­fic­tion
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    Hara E. Person and Diane G. Person
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    Penny Schine Gold
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    Pini the Pitch­er: A Sto­ry for Hanukkah
    Batya Kirshenbaum Osterbach; Lizzy Elsby, illus.
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    The Kids’ Cat­a­log of Ani­mals and the Earth
    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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