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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 Bear Makers
    Andrea Cheng
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    Chil­dren’s
    Pup­pet
    Eva Wiseman
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Lily Pond
    Annika Thor; Linda Schenck, trans.
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    Sab­ri­na: The Girl With a Hole in Her Heart
    Wendy Lewis; Diane Lucas, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Passover (On My Own Holidays)
    Cathy Goldberg Fishman; Jeni Reeves, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Vive La Paris
    Esme Raji Codell
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    The Best Hanukkah Ever
    Barbara Diamond Goldin; Avi Katz, illus.
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    Hanukkah Moon
    Deborah Da Costa; Gosia Mosz, illus.
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    A Mezuzah on the Door
    Amy Meltzer; Janice Fried, illus.
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    Ham­merin’ Hank: The Life of Hank Greenberg
    Yona Zeldis McDonough; Malcah Zeldis, illus.
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    Shang­hai Shadows
    Lois Ruby
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    Cel­e­brate Hanukkah with Light, Latkes, and Dreidels
    Deb­o­rah Heiligman
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    Some­where in Germany
    Stefanie Zweig; Marlies Comjean, trans.
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    Mem­o­ries of Babi
    Aranka Siegel
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    Non­fic­tion
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    Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol

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