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1) No vacancy
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Miriam Brockman's family buys and moves into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York. It takes a lot of hard work to run a motel, but it's also an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door. The two friends decide to create their own miracle to save the Jewel from bankruptcy.
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Despite her grandmother's wise words about how moving to a new place can be both bitter and sweet, Hannah feels only bitterness as she tries to get used to her new house. But when she sees the new home in the soft light of the Shabbat candles and a new friend reaches out with a special gift, Hannah begins to realize that sweetness can come from unexpected places.
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Twelve-year-old Dina, her mother, and two sisters must contend with the invasion of the Nazis of their small Ukrainian town during World War II. With the help of a new housekeeper, Nina, they struggle to stay safe from imminent danger to the Jewish community. Based on a true story.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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At the dreidel-making workshop, Jeremy's friends think he's molding a secret code on his clay dreidel. But he's really making a special gift for his father, who is blind. How will he get his friends to appreciate his special dreidel?
7) Honey and me
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Milla and Honey have been best friends since forever. Milla envies Honey's confidence, her charisma, and her big, chaotic familyespecially when they provide a welcome escape from Milla's own small family and quiet house. In their close-knit Jewish community, the two girls do everything together, from delivering meals to an ill-tempered elderly neighbor, to shopping at a local thrift store, celebrating the holidays, and going to their...
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A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can't always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions...
10) My Name is Aviva
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"My name is Aviva, not Amoeba!" shouts Aviva at her teasing classmates. Aviva is determined to change her name until she discovers where her name comes from and why her parents chose that special name for her.
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For the first time, Sadie's little brother Ori will be joining her at sleep-away camp. He's very excited, but he wants to bring Nuggles, his favorite stuffy," and is worried that his bunkmates will make fun of him. Is he ever in for a surprise! The fifth book in Kar-Ben's popular Sadie and Ori" series by best-selling author Jamie Korngold (God in the Wilderness, Doubleday), often quoted in the media as a voice of liberal Judaism.
14) Gabriel's Horn
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A mysterious soldier appears at the door hands Gabriel a tarnished horn, and disappears. As the years go by, Gabriel's family prospers and they, in turn, help their neighbors. Could their good luck have something to do with the soldier or the horn?
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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Pavel is a new American, excited about his new country. When his rabbi tells him that the Civilian Conservation Corps is hiring young people, Pavel is thrilled. As a member of the Corps, he learns to plant trees, build dams, and take care of the land. But not everyone in the Corps thinks Pavel belongs in America. It's not until he and...
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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Young Bezalel is different from the other Israelite slaves in Egypt. He loves to collect stones, bugs, bits of string-these all seem beautiful to him. He keeps everything in his Beautiful Things Box and takes it with him everywhere. As the Israelites wander in the desert, God asks them to build a very special house-and Bezalel may be...
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This colorful picture book shows toddlers the meaning of Boker Tov - which is "good morning" in Hebrew. Welcoming a bright new day, the lyrical text and delightful illustrations highlight the many things to be thankful for each day. Written by internationally renowned rabbi and musician Joe Black, the book also comes with a CD of the song Boker Tov (which is also the text of the book) performed by the author. This book will have the whole family singing!...
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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life!
The world began when God said "Light,"
And changed the world from dark to bright.
Gentle rhyming couplets tell the story of how God created the world, describing six days of work fashioning everything from seas and clouds to animals and people, to-finally-resting on Shabbat.
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Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family's circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler's Nazis has put them all in grave danger. When the circus is forced to shut down and Irene's father is taken away, Irene and her mother must go into hiding with another circus. Every day is...