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• Honey and Me

  Drazin, Meira,

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  When 11-year-old Milla's best friend Honey joins her school for 6th grade, Milla finds herself in her friend's shadow. As the year progresses through the Jewish holidays, Milla tries to cope with the tensions and the dramas of school.

• Just Shy of Ordinary

  Sass, A. J.,

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  Shai, a 13-year-old nonbinary homeschooler, attempts to find a "new normal" post-pandemic as they start public school, meet new friends, and learn about their Jewish identity.

• Eddie Whatever

  Ruby, Lois,

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  13-year-old Eddie's Mitzvah Project takes him to Silver Brook retirement home, where his assumptions about the elderly are upended by a ghost, a thief, long-running disagreements, and unexpected romance.

• Chunky

  Mercado, Yehudi,

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  Hudi would rather do anything else than try out for sports, but then he meets Chunky, his imaginary friend and mascot. As the only Mexican and Jewish kid in his neighborhood, Hudi has finally found his cheerleader.

• Across So Many Seas

  Behar, Ruth, 1956-

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  "Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"-

• The Witch of Woodland

  Snyder, Laurel,

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  While preparing for her bat mitzvah--and trying to make sense of her own life--Zippy discovers she has magical abilities when she conjures up a beautiful girl with no memory and wings like an angel to whom she is connected.

• This Is Just a Test

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  Rosenberg, Madelyn, 1966-

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  In 1983 7th-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz worries about his bar mitzvah, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers who argue about everything, his trivia teammates who do not like each other, girls, and the Cold War.

• The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman

  Lowe, Mari,

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  12-year-old Orthodox Jewish Shaindy helps her neighbor and classmate with a prank. When more pranks go from mischief to malice though, Shaindy realizes that if she can't figure out how to stop Gayil, the next target could be her.

• The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family

  Kapit, Sarah,

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  Two sisters start a detective agency and solve a series of everyday mysteries about themselves and their family, including why their father ruined the brisket.

• The Jake Show

  Levy, Joshua (Joshua S.),

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  For Jake, his parents' divorce is like his favorite show getting canceled: The worst. He's stuck between playing the role of 'Yaakov' for his mother and 'Jacob' for his father. Now to go to camp with his friends, Jake concocts a web of lies.

• Not Your all-American Girl

  Rosenberg, Madelyn, 1966-

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  Lauren's two grandmothers are furious after her friend Tara gets the lead role in the school play, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl.

• Turtle Boy

  Wolkenstein, M. Evan,

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  For his Bar Mitzvah community service project, Will has to visit RJ, an older boy struggling with an incurable disease. When RJ's disease worsens, Will realizes he needs to tackle his new friend's bucket list before it's too late.

• Becoming Brianna

  Libenson, Terri,

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  Bri hates being in the spotlight. So why did she ever agree to something that forces her to learn a new language, give a speech, help organize a party, and juggle drama at school and home?!

• Recipe for Disaster

  Lucido, Aimee,

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  When her best friend has a beyond-awesome Bat Mitzvah, Hannah is a little envious. Despite her parents firm no, Hannah knows that if she can learn enough about her own faith, she can convince her friends that the party is still in motion.

• Two Tribes

  Bowen Cohen, Emily,

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  Mia lives in L.A. with her Jewish mom and stepdad. Her Muscogee dad lives in Oklahoma and she feels like she's missing a part of herself. Mia makes a plan to use her bat mitzvah gifts to take a bus to Oklahoma--without telling her mom--and find the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop

  Levy, Joshua (Joshua S.),

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  Finn and Ezra are trapped in a bar mitzvah time loop, reliving their celebrations over and over again. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. No way out. Until Finn and Ezra meet and realize they're not alone.

• Let It Glow

  Meyer, Marissa,

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  Both Aviva and Holly knew they were adopted, but they had no idea they had a biological sibling, let alone an identical twin! The girls secretly trade lives, planning to tell their families at the holiday pageant. What could possibly go wrong?

• A Place at the Table

  Faruqi, Saadia,

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  Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.

• How to Find What You're Not Looking for

  Hiranandani, Veera,

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  12-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes and she's forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs.

• Linked

  Korman, Gordon,

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  Someone vandalizes the school with a swastika. The closer Link, Michael, and Dana get to the truth of who and why, the more there is to face--not just the crimes of the present, but the crimes of the past.