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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
Chil­dren’s
Min­del and the Mis­fit Dragons
Xianna Michaels
Chil­dren’s
Apple Days
Allison Sarnoff Soffer; Bob McMahon, illus.
Chil­dren’s
I Lived on But­ter­fly Hill
Marjorie Agosin; Lee White, illus.
Chil­dren’s
Under the Egg
Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Chil­dren’s
The Short Seller
Elis­sa Brent Weissman
Chil­dren’s
The Watch­er in the Shadows
Chris Moriarty; Mark Edward Geyer, illus.
Chil­dren’s
The Crys­tal Ball: A Rebec­ca Mystery
Jacqueline Dembar Greene; Sergio Giovine, illus.
Chil­dren’s
How Dalia Put a Big Yel­low Com­forter Inside a Tiny Blue Box
Linda Heller; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus.
Chil­dren’s
Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah!
Olga & Aleksey Ivanov, illus.
Chil­dren’s
Sadie and the Big Mountain
Jamie Korngold; Julie Fortenberry, illus.
Chil­dren’s
Always Some­thing Else
M. C. Milman
Chil­dren’s
A Mov­ing Tale
Gadi Pollack
Chil­dren’s
Dayenu
Miriam Latimer, illus.
Chil­dren’s
Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fair­ly Fab­ri­cat­ed Sto­ry of a Pair of Pants
Tony Johnston; Stacy Innerst, illus.

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