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Items with the category:

Young Adult

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Fic­tion
Orphan Mon­ster Spy
Matt Killeen
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Chil­dren’s
Back­field Boys: A Foot­ball Mys­tery in Black and White
John Feinstein
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Fic­tion
Map­ping the Bones
Jane Yolen
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Fic­tion
The Front­man: A Novel
Ron Bahar
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Fic­tion
Light Years
Emi­ly Ziff Griffin
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Fic­tion
Lit­tle & Lion
Brandy Col­bert
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Fic­tion
What the Night Sings
Ves­per Stamper
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Fic­tion
You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Interview

Inter­view: Rachel Lynn Solomon

Emi­ly Stone
February 22, 2018
Recommended Reading

G‑d Gave Us the Rain­bow: A Valen­tine’s Day Read­ing List

Sacha Lamb
February 8, 2018
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Fic­tion
The Librar­i­an of Auschwitz
Antonio Iturbe;‎ Lilit Thwaites, trans.
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Chil­dren’s
The Cal­cu­lus of Change
Jessie Hilb
Recommended Reading

The Best YA Nov­els with Jew­ish Protagonists

Rachel Lynn Solomon
December 27, 2017
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Fic­tion
The Girl with the Red Bal­loon (The Balloonmakers)
Kather­ine Locke
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Non­fic­tion
Anne Frank (Graph­ic Library: Graph­ic Lives)
Diego Agrimbau
Essay

Where Are All the Hap­py Jew­ish Stories?

Sacha Lamb is a part-time librar­i­an, part-time stu­dent, and part-time YA writer and read­er. She is blog­ging here as part of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe…
Sacha Lamb
December 7, 2017
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