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    Rachel Kamin

    Rachel Kamin has been a syn­a­gogue librar­i­an and Jew­ish edu­ca­tor for over twen­ty-five years and has worked at North Sub­ur­ban Syn­a­gogue Beth El in High­land Park, IL since 2008, cur­rent­ly serv­ing as the Direc­tor of Life­long Learn­ing. A past chair of the Syd­ney Tay­lor Book Award Com­mit­tee and past edi­tor of Book Reviews for Chil­dren & Teens for the Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries News & Reviews, her arti­cles and book reviews appear in numer­ous pub­li­ca­tions. She has been a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Library Association’s Sophie Brody Book Award Com­mit­tee since 2021.

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    Chil­dren’s
    The See-You-Soon Spice Box
    Pamela Ehrenberg; Gabby Grant, illus. 
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    Mendel’s Hanukkah Mess-Up
    Chana Stiefel and Larry Stiefel; Daphna Awadish, illus.
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    Brand-New Bubbe
    Sarah Aronson, Ariel Landy (Illustrator)
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    Mr. Mintz’s Blintzes
    Leslie Kimmelman, Esther Hernando (Illustrator)
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    A Queen to the Res­cue: The Sto­ry of Hen­ri­et­ta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
    Nancy Churnin, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
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    Han­nah G. Solomon Dared to Make a Difference
    Bon­nie Lindauer
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    The Great Passover Escape
    Pamela Moritz, Florence Weiser (Illustrator)
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    Where’s the Pot­ty on This Ark?
    Kerry Olitzky; Abigail Tompkins, illus.
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    We Are Jew­ish Faces
    Debra B. Darvick
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    The Miss­ing Let­ters: A Drei­del Story
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    Deep Sea
    Annika Thor; Linda Schneck, trans.
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    Anoth­er Me
    Eva Wise­man
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