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• Leaving the Station

  Arlow, Jake Maia,

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  A college freshman takes a cross-country train ride to escape her missteps and rethink her identity, but an unexpected connection along the way challenges her to face who she is and who she wants to become.

• D.J. Rosenblum Becomes the G.O.A.T.

  White, Abby

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  After moving in with family following her cousin’s death, a middle schooler investigates what really happened with help from a school newspaper editor. As she searches for answers, she navigates grief, friendship, and the messy, path of finding her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Forbidden Book

  Lamb, Sacha

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  On the eve of her arranged marriage, a teen runs away and assumes a boy’s identity to survive, only to discover she’s stepped into a dangerous world of crime, secrets, and supernatural forces. As she uncovers the truth behind the identity she’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Judgment of Yoyo Gold

  Blum, Isaac,

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  Yoyo Gold has always played the role of the perfect Jewish daughter. She keeps kosher, looks after her siblings, and volunteers at the local food bank. She respects the decisions of her rabbi father and encourages her friends to observe the rules of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night Owls

  Vishny, A. R,

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  Molly and Clara are estries—bread-eating, owl-shifting women vampires from Jewish lore—living in an indie cinema/former Yiddish theater. When Molly's girlfriend vanishes, the sisters must team up with reluctant medium Boaz and face down a monstrous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Courage to Dream

  Tales of Hope in the Holocaust

  Shusterman, Neal,

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  This ambitious graphic novel presents a multifaceted exploration of the Holocaust in a new, hopeful way. Five interconnected stories combine into one that challenges traditional tropes by placing Jewish characters in positions of empowerment and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Dark Descent

  Josephson, Kalyn,

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  Part of a series. Seventeen-year-old Mikira is a talented horse jockey and scion of a renowned family of enchanted equine breeders whose fortunes have declined since attracting the ire of cruel Lord Rezek Kelbra. When Rezek discovers that Mikira's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Librarian of Auschwitz

  Rubio, Salva, 1978-

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  Based on Iturbe's novelization of Dita Kraus's experiences during World War II, this graphic novel details Kraus's early life in Czechoslovakia, her love of reading, and the unusual existence of a family camp and classroom (of sorts) for children…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wrath Becomes Her

  Polydoros, Aden,

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  Vera is a golem, created from the remains of Chaya, a young woman killed by the Nazis. Ezra, Chaya’s father, used forbidden magic to create Vera with one goal in mind: vengeance. As Vera travels through Lithuania in search of Chaya’s murderers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blood Years

  Arnold, Elana K,

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  Growing up in Czernowitz with a protective grandfather and an unstable mother, thirteen-year old Frederieke (Rieke) Teitler and her older sister Astra struggle to survive when war breaks out and their beloved community is invaded by the Russian and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Going Bicoastal

  Adler, Dahlia,

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  Rising high school senior and proud bisexual Natalya Fox gets to choose between two options for the summer: staying with her math professor dad on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where she's always lived, or going to Los Angeles to live with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eight Nights of Flirting

  Reynolds, Hannah, 1988-

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  Shira wants to date Isaac, but she’s a disaster at flirting. After a night snowed in with her nemesis Tyler, they strike a bargain: flirting lessons in exchange for connecting Tyler to her family’s business empire. Set during Hanukkah, this story is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Fine Fellow

  Cohen, Jennieke,

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  Bossy Helena Higgins and her Culinarian classmate, Penelope Pickering, attempt to turn a Covent Garden peddler, Elijah Little, into a gentlemen chef. This clever epicurean riff on My Fair Lady, set in 19th century England, spotlights prejudices of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ghosts of Rose Hill

  Romero, R. M. (Rachael Maria), 1987-

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  Sixteen-year-old budding violinist Ilana visits Prague, where she encounters ghosts and a river monster (vodnik) while tending the graves in an abandoned Jewish cemetery. This suspenseful novel-in-verse combines elements of Judaic tradition with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

  Blum, Isaac,

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  Despite stern warnings from Hoodie's father and Yeshiva teacher not to spend time with goyim, Hoodie meets and falls for Anna-Marie Diaz-O'Leary, the mayor's daughter, who helps him remove swastikas from Jewish gravestones in a local cemetery. When…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Angels Left the Old Country

  Lamb, Sacha,

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  Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Words We Said

  Scheier, Leah,

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  Nine months after their friend Danny disappears, Modern Orthodox teens Ellie, Deenie, and Rae are coping in wildly different ways. Chapters alternate between past and present, revealing secrets and exploring the depths to which guilt can drive a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lessons in Fusion

  a Novel

  Madayag Knazan, Primrose,

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  Sarah Dayan-Abed is a 16-year-old multiracial, Ashkenazi Jewish and Filipinx teen who loves cooking, writing for her fusion cooking blog, and watching her favorite reality show, Cyber Chef, created during the pandemic. Cyber Chef has virtual…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why We Fly

  Jones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice),

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  Overachieving and privileged high school seniors and cheerleaders, Eleanor (Jewish) and Chanel (African American), lead the radical choice to “take a knee” at the season’s first football game. This timely page-turner highlights the complexities of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way Back

  Savit, Gavriel,

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  When the Angel of Death comes strolling through the little shtetl of Tupik one night, Yehuda Leib and Blume will be sent spinning off on a journey through the Far Country. There they will make pacts with ancient demons, declare war on Death himself,…Read moreRead more of this annotation