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    Cover of Liba and the Feather Thief
    Chil­dren’s
    Liba and the Feath­er Thief
    Miriam Walfish
    Cover of Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education
    Chil­dren’s
    Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosen­wald Helped Change African Amer­i­can Education
    Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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    Trash Can Days: A Mid­dle School Saga
    Teddy Steinkellner
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    Chil­dren’s
    Mak­ing Bombs For Hitler
    Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
    Cover of Mira in the Present Tense
    Chil­dren’s
    Mira in the Present Tense
    Sita Brahmachari
    Cover of A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel
    Chil­dren’s
    A Bag of Mar­bles: The Graph­ic Novel
    Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans.
    Cover of Keeping My Hope
    Chil­dren’s
    Keep­ing My Hope
    Christopher Huh
    Essay

    The Lega­cy of Robert Kim­mel Smith

    by Dina Wein­stein Forty years ago in books and in groups, women were doc­u­ment­ing, prod­ding, and exam­in­ing their world, their sta­tus, and their lot as they entered the…
    Dina Wein­stein
    November 14, 2013
    Cover of Mira’s Diary: Home Sweet Rome
    Chil­dren’s
    Mira’s Diary: Home Sweet Rome
    Maris­sa Moss
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    Chil­dren’s
    Liba’s Let­ters
    Miriam Walfish; DreaMaker Studio, illus.
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    Liba’s Palace
    Miriam Walfish; DreaMaker Studio, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Her Moth­er’s Secret
    Barbara Garland Polikoff
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    Jean Laf­fite: The Pirate Who Saved America
    Susan Goldman Rubin; Jeff Himmelman, illus.
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    Ire­na’s Jars of Secrets
    Marcia Vaughan; Ron Mazellan, illus.
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    Storky: How I Lost My Nick­name and Won the Girl
    D. L. Garfinkle
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    A Promise Ful­filled: Theodor Her­zl, Chaim Weiz­mann, David Ben-Guri­on and the Cre­ation of the State of Israel
    Howard Greenfeld
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