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    Lisa Sil­ver­man

    Lisa Sil­ver­man is direc­tor of Sinai Tem­ple’s Blu­men­thal Library in Los Ange­les and a for­mer day school librar­i­an. She is the for­mer chil­dren’s book review edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World.
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    Storky: How I Lost My Nick­name and Won the Girl
    D. L. Garfinkle
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    The Jour­ney That Saved Curi­ous George: The True Wartime Escape of Mar­gret and H.A. Rey
    Louise Borden; Allan Drummond, illus.
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    Dream­er from the Vil­lage: The Sto­ry of Marc Chagall
    Michelle Markel; Emily Lisker, illus.
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    Feath­ers: A Jew­ish Tale from East­ern Europe
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    Susie Fishbein
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    Five Lit­tle Gefiltes
    Dave Horowitz
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    The Latke Who Could­n’t Stop Scream­ing: A Christ­mas Story
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    This is Israel
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    The Yan­kee at the Seder
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