United States: Jewish Americans

• Neville, Emily Cheney.
  Berries Goodman
  After his family moves to the suburbs, nine-year-old Berries Goodman finds another loner like himself, but then loses his best friend through prejudice.
  Educ. Res. PS 3564 .E85 B4 c.1
• Werlin, Nancy.
  Black mirror : a novel
  Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.
  Educ. Res. PS 3573 .E716 B5 20
• Levine, Gail Carson.
  Dave at night
  When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.
  Educ. Res. PS 3562 E897 D3 199
• Greenberg, Jan, 1942-
  Frank O. Gehry : outside in
  Educ. Res. N 737 .G44 G74 2000
• Meltzer, Milton, 1915-
  The Jewish Americans : a history in their own words, 1650-1950
  A collection of accounts of personal experiences of Jewish Americans, taken from letters, journals, diaries, autobiographies, speeches, and other documents.
  Educ. Res. E 184 .J5 J5 1982
• Hesse, Karen.
  Letters from Rifka
  In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
  Educ. Res. PS 3558 .E749 L4 19
• Lasky, Kathryn.
  Marven of the Great North Woods
  When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.
  Educ. Res. PS 3562 .A73 M37 19
• Rael, Elsa.
  Rivka's first Thanksgiving
  Having heard about Thanksgiving in school, nine-year-old Rivka tries to convince her immigrant family and her rabbi that it is a holiday for all Americans, Jews and non-Jews alike.
  Educ. Res. PS 3568 .A34 R5 200
• Abelove, Joan.
  Saying it out loud
  With the help of her best friend, sixteen-year-old Mindy sorts through her relationships with her solicitous mother and her detached father as she tries to come to terms with the fact that her mother is dying from a brain tumor.
  Educ. Res. PS 3551 .B342 S38 1
• Rosen, Sybil.
  Speed of light
  An eleven-year-old Jewish girl living in the South during the 1950s struggles with the antisemitism and racism which pervade her small community.
  Educ. Res. PS 3568 .O7756 S56
• Oberman, Sheldon.
  The always prayer shawl
  A prayer shawl is handed down from grandfather to grandson in this story of Jewish tradition and the passage of generations.
  Educ. Res. PR 9199.3 .O 235 A5
• Polacco, Patricia.
  The keeping quilt
  A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.
  Educ. Res. PS 3566 .O396 K4 19
• Lasky, Kathryn.
  The night journey
  A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great- grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.
  Educ. Res. PS 3562 .A73 N5 198
• Bat-Ami, Miriam.
  Two suns in the sky
  Educ. Res. PS 3552 .A814 T8 19
• Rael, Elsa.
  What Zeesie saw on Delancey Street
  A young Jewish girl living on Manhattan's Lower East Side attends her first "package party" where she learns about the traditions of generosity, courage, and community among Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s.
  Educ. Res. PS 3568 .A34 W5 199
• Hest, Amy.
  When Jessie came across the sea
  A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
  Educ. Res. PS 3558 .E798 W5 19
• Rael, Elsa.
  When Zaydeh danced on Eldridge Street
  While staying with her grandparents in New York City in the mid- 1930s, eight-year-old Zeesie joins in the celebration of Simchat Torah and sees a different side of her stern grandfather.
  Educ. Res. PS 3568 .A34 W53 19
• Hesse, Karen.
  Witness
  A novel in poetry form expressing the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
  Educ. Res. PS 3558 .E749 W53 2