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    Mar­ci Lavine Bloch

    Mar­ci Lavine Bloch earned her MLS from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land, a BA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia and an MA in Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture from Ford­ham Uni­ver­si­ty. She has worked in syn­a­gogue and day school libraries and is cur­rent­ly fin­ish­ing her term on the Syd­ney Tay­lor Book Award Committee.
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Magician’s Fire
    Simon Nicholson
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    Min­del and the Mis­fit Dragons
    Xianna Michaels
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    Apple Days
    Allison Sarnoff Soffer; Bob McMahon, illus.
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    I Lived on But­ter­fly Hill
    Mar­jorie Agosín; Lee White, illus.
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    Under the Egg
    Laura Marx Fitzgerald
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    The Short Seller
    Elis­sa Brent Weissman
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    The Watch­er in the Shadows
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    The Crys­tal Ball: A Rebec­ca Mystery
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    How Dalia Put a Big Yel­low Com­forter Inside a Tiny Blue Box
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    A Mov­ing Tale
    Gadi Pollack
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    M. C. Milman
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    Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fair­ly Fab­ri­cat­ed Sto­ry of a Pair of Pants
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