S/o your favorite novel as a teenager (jewish)

rikki 1

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 11:25 am

Yes, Meyer Bendet books were written so engrossing and interesting, especially at a time of so few Jewish books.

Who remembers the two volumes of The Orphan?

also, The Little Black Box? (a few books as well).

My mother still has loads of these books in her house. She's putting them together to make a small library (Lakewood-based).

rikki 1

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 11:25 am

Conquer the Darkness I watched as well as a play I think in Camp Bnos, one of the few plays I still recall.

Unigala

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 11:27 am

SUN INSIDE RAIN!!!

also full harvest, shortchanged...

amother

Brass

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 11:33 am

I got the pomegranate pendant on Amazon. There's also a sequel called seeds of the pomegranate that is good but not as good.

I also read most of these books as an adult. I feel so old.

amother

Saddlebrown

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 11:34 am

I loved so many of the books mentioned here! So nostalgic. I read the secret life of chani greenberg and the will so many times.

I’ve switched to reading nonjewish books as an adult. Are Jewish books still good these days? My parents had the money to buy Jewish books but I can’t say I do.

amother

Pewter

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 11:37 am

amother Quince wrote:

Family Secfets by Sarah Birnhack. I cry every time I read it even though I've read it too many times to count.
And Search my Heart, also by Sarah Birnhack.

This. An all time favorite tear jerker.

amother

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 1:50 pm

amother Slategray wrote:

The unanswered cry
Cant remember the name or author but a trilogy of a women becoming an ob after her marriage and birth of her baby, started out in israel and moves to england
Maybe more will come to me

I loved the book the unanswered cry!!

amother

Ecru

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 1:53 pm

GrowingUp wrote:

Shadows on the Moon - Brocha Goykadosh
Eva Vogiel books

Also Reva p. Books
Search my heart
Lift me higher

Chayalle

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 1:54 pm

Unigala wrote:

SUN INSIDE RAIN!!!

also full harvest, shortchanged...

I couldn't believe I went thru 3 pages to get to Sun Inside Rain!

Hashem_Yaazor

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 3:27 pm

Chayalle wrote:

I couldn't believe I went thru 3 pages to get to Sun Inside Rain!

The question was favorite book as a teenager 😉

amother

Fuchsia

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 3:43 pm

Anyone mentioned Avner Gold books yet? I loved the Marrano Prince.

happyness

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 3:45 pm

Regards from camp😄

amother

Hibiscus

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 4:08 pm

Sun inside Rain was my favorite by far

Also Prince of Akko

amother

Gray

Sat, Dec 23 2023, 1:22 pm

I think this was more of a pre teen novel but when "A Problem Called Chavi" came to our school library I remember waiting anxiously for weeks before I could borrow it. I have no recollection of what it was about though, just that I and every other girl at school was desperate to read it.

Roots

Sat, Dec 23 2023, 1:38 pm

another vote for the unanswered cry

Food

Sat, Dec 23 2023, 1:55 pm

Yair Weinstock's books, especially Eye of the Storm and The Gordion Knot
Also Nachman Seltzer's The Shadows

amother

Aubergine

Sat, Dec 23 2023, 4:30 pm

The Exiles of Crocodile Island
Happy is the Heart

Rabbit613

Sat, Dec 23 2023, 4:32 pm

[quote="Unigala"]SUN INSIDE RAIN!!!

YES!! YES!!!

amother

Jade

Sat, Dec 23 2023, 6:07 pm

Spiders web

Dibs
The little Princess
The Secret Garden

The last 3 our teacher read to us in class

amother

Fuchsia

Sat, Dec 23 2023, 6:42 pm

Just reread a long time favorite over Shabbos
Set me free by Estie Florance.