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    Marge Kaplan

    Marge Kaplan is a retired Eng­lish as a Sec­ond Lan­guage teacher. She is a con­sul­tant for the children’s lit­er­a­ture group for the Roseville, MN school sys­tem and is a sto­ry­teller of Jew­ish tales.
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    The Free and the Brave
    Tovah S. Yavin
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    Super Jake and the King of Chaos
    Nao­mi Milliner
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    Hil­lel Takes a Bath
    Vicki L. Weber, John Joven (illus.) 
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    Sav­ing Han­no: The Sto­ry of a Refugee Dog
    Miriam Halahmy 
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    Amber J. Keyser and Kiersi Burkhart
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    Cary Fagan
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    Judith Weinshall Liberman
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    What’s in a Name?: A Young Person’s Jew­ish Geneal­o­gy Workbook
    Stephen M. Cohen and Caryn Alter
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    Hitler, My Neigh­bor: Mem­o­ries of a Jew­ish Child­hood, 1929 – 1939
    Edgar Feuchtwanger, Bertil Scali; Adriana Hunter, trans.
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