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Family & Parenting

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Chil­dren’s
Rachel Fried­man Breaks the Rules
Sarah Kapit; Genevieve Kote, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
Every Sto­ry Ever Told
Ami Polon­sky
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Non­fic­tion
Fifty-Sev­en Fri­days: Los­ing Our Daugh­ter, Find­ing Our Way
Myra Sack
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Chil­dren’s
Wait­ing for Lumpy
Leslie Kimmelman; Teresa Ramos, illus.
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Non­fic­tion
Coun­ter­ing Anti­semitism & Hate: A How-To Guide for Youth (8−18), Fam­i­ly & Educators
Lynne Azarchi
Har­lene Lichter Galen
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Fic­tion
The World After Alice
Lau­ren Aliza Green
Essay

A Let­ter from a Stranger Revealed a Fam­i­ly Secret Kept from Me

Karen Kirsten
July 22, 2024
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Chil­dren’s
Joy­ful Song: A Nam­ing Story
Lesléa Newman; Susan Gal, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
What Rosa Brought
Jacob Sager Weinstein; Eliza Wheeler, illus.
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The Most Human: Rec­on­cil­ing With My Father Leonard Nimoy
Adam Nimoy
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Ben­jy’s Messy Room
Barbara Diamond Goldin; Rita Tan, illus.
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The Christ­mas Meno­rahs: How a Town Fought Hate
Janice Cohn; Bill Farnsworth, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
Like the Sea and the Sky: A Mys­te­ri­ous Mol­lusk and Its Mag­i­cal Blue Ink
Jordan Namerow; Michelle Simpson, illus.
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Just One More Thing … and Then Bedtime
Menahem Halberstadt; Romy Ronen, trans.
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Chil­dren’s
The Put­ter­mans Are in the House
Jacquet­ta Nam­mar Feldman
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Absolute­ly, Pos­i­tive­ly Natty
Lisa Green­wald
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