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amother
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 Tue, Jan 22 2019, 12:37 pm
Looking to help build up our local Jewish library, plus while I’m at it recommend some good books to my kids & myself too! I love reading but aside from magazines have done very little reading the last many years, so please help me out:
I’m looking for well written books, old or new (but still in print):
What are great books for lower elementary?
Great books for pre-teens?
Great books for teens?
And great books for adults?
Please list your favorite Jewish authors or books, and include which age it’s for, how well written it is, if it’s historical fiction, realistic fiction, adventure/ terror category etc. etc.
Thank you!!!
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esuss
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 1:18 pm
Avner gold historical fiction upper elementary and older
Miriam Walfish historical fiction girls mid elementary school
MC Millman mid to upper elementary school and older. I enjoy her books immensely also.
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sarah58
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 1:30 pm
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Etka Gittel Schwartz - Historical Fiction high school aged
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amother
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 1:37 pm
I love Rachel Pomerantz. Very well constructed, realistic (but very perceptive) characters.
Some other classics:
- The Pomegranate Pendant (excellent historical fiction)
- Sun Inside Rain (M. Bassara)
- Alef Shin (very Tom Clancy-ish)
I enjoy most of Eva Vogiel's books, not usually earth shattering, but very warm and enjoyable.
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amother
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 1:39 pm
The Single Files - Ahuva Parnes - excellent read. True story.
Promise Me Jerusalem - Chany Rosengarten - vivid fiction.
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sarah58
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 3:17 pm
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M. Kenan - Dark Secrets, the Betrayal the Outcast
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hannabanana
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 3:44 pm
| amother wrote: | I love Rachel Pomerantz. Very well constructed, realistic (but very perceptive) characters.
Some other classics:
- The Pomegranate Pendant (excellent historical fiction)
- Sun Inside Rain (M. Bassara)
- Alef Shin (very Tom Clancy-ish)
I enjoy most of Eva Vogiel's books, not usually earth shattering, but very warm and enjoyable. |
Not the op but always on the lookout! Thx!
sun inside rain is one of my favorites
Alef shin seems to be out of print? Would love to get my hands on it. Any recommendations where I can find it?
Thanks!
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OOTBubby
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 3:55 pm
| hannabanana wrote: | Not the op but always on the lookout! Thx!
sun inside rain is one of my favorites
Alef shin seems to be out of print? Would love to get my hands on it. Any recommendations where I can find it?
Thanks! |
I heard that Aleph Shin had recently been reprinted. DGS worked in a bookstore over the summer and bought it.
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hannabanana
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 4:22 pm
| OOTBubby wrote: | | I heard that Aleph Shin had recently been reprinted. DGS worked in a bookstore over the summer and bought it. |
Really? Didn’t see it in my local bookstore. I’m in Brooklyn.
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little neshamala
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 4:50 pm
Every man a slave is AMAZING and I kick myself for all those years of seeing it on finkelstein librarys shelf and passing over it because the cover looked awful. (It does! It needs a better cover!)
(Historical fiction. During times of slavery...insanely well written, not at all Jewish style)
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Amelia Bedelia
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 4:51 pm
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I enjoy Sara Wiederblank and Reva Pomerantz. Also, Mirror Image by Shevy Schottenstein.
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suremom
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 5:03 pm
I second "Every Man a Slave" By Sender Zyev (also authored Alef Shin) his last book is poorly written. Dont remember the name. I only appreciated these books once I was a young adult.
EG schwartz-Short changed, Full Harvest.
M. Kenan-His first to books (The Betrayal & The Outcast) are better than the last one (Dark Secrets?) high school +
Avner Gold-preteen+not so well written.
Mrs Honigs Cakes-Favorite for 8+
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ra_mom
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 5:05 pm
For tweens
Family for a While
A Tale of Two Sisters
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hannabanana
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 5:10 pm
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Located it in my local library!
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monseymom25
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 5:53 pm
Another vote for Wildflower and Every Man a Slave.
I loved Flashback by Gita Gordon.
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enjoying kids
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 8:31 pm
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monseymom25
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 8:34 pm
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The Scent of Snowflowers |
I had forgotten about that! What an amazing book.
Also The Sun and the Shield and Nor the Moon By Night.
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hannabanana
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 8:40 pm
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Love etka gittel Schwartz’s Novels she actually the reason why u still buy the binah.. she’s masterful in her research and in pulling together a story in that subtle way.. keeps you guessing
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PinkFridge
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 9:52 pm
What are great books for lower elementary?
Red Yellow Blue Yarn (or something like that) by Miriam Kosman
Dena Rosenfeld's books
When I Am a Mommy/When I Am an Abba - Dishy Schiffman
Yaffa Ganz's books
The Search for the Stones
Manny's A Thief - Getzel
As Big As An Egg - Sandman
Great books for pre-teens?
Mimi in the Middle, Mimi's Summer (or something like that) - Altein
Other Altein books are OK too, some might be for young or older teens
We Want Life! - one of the early shemiras halashon books
The 23 Under One Roof series
Series like BY Times, Kid Sisters, Bakers' Dozen
Miriam Elias's books
Great books for teens?
(This is the sandwich category. There will be some overlap.)
The Stars Will Guide You, Into the Fire - Walfish
The Exiles of Crocodile Island, This is America - Meyer
The Kazar series - Kenan
As Long As I Live - Margalit
Shortchanged - Schwartz
To Remain a Jew - Rav Yitzchak Zilber
And great books for adults?
Sun Inside Rain - Bassara
Emunah With Love and Chicken Soup
And G-d Winked - Rigler
Honestly, I don't know where to begin. I'm going to stop, random as this is, and I'm sure when I wake up in the middle of the night I'll be flooded with titles. Let's just say, to be continued.
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hannabanana
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Tue, Jan 22 2019, 11:14 pm
| PinkFridge wrote: | What are great books for lower elementary?
Red Yellow Blue Yarn (or something like that) by Miriam Kosman
Dena Rosenfeld's books
When I Am a Mommy/When I Am an Abba - Dishy Schiffman
Yaffa Ganz's books
The Search for the Stones
Manny's A Thief - Getzel
As Big As An Egg - Sandman
Great books for pre-teens?
Mimi in the Middle, Mimi's Summer (or something like that) - Altein
Other Altein books are OK too, some might be for young or older teens
We Want Life! - one of the early shemiras halashon books
The 23 Under One Roof series
Series like BY Times, Kid Sisters, Bakers' Dozen
Miriam Elias's books
Great books for teens?
(This is the sandwich category. There will be some overlap.)
The Stars Will Guide You, Into the Fire - Walfish
The Exiles of Crocodile Island, This is America - Meyer
The Kazar series - Kenan
As Long As I Live - Margalit
Shortchanged - Schwartz
To Remain a Jew - Rav Yitzchak Zilber
And great books for adults?
Sun Inside Rain - Bassara
Emunah With Love and Chicken Soup
And G-d Winked - Rigler
Honestly, I don't know where to begin. I'm going to stop, random as this is, and I'm sure when I wake up in the middle of the night I'll be flooded with titles. Let's just say, to be continued. |
That’s it for adults? 
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