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c2006., Primary, Putnam's Call No: Picture Book MIC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jewish Abe's grandfather wants him to be a violinist while African-American Wille's father plans for him to be a great baseball pitcher, but it turns out that the two boys are more talented when they switch hobbies.
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By Garza, Hedda1995., Juvenile, Franklin Watts Call No: 973 GAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American experienceSummary Note: A history of the African Americans and Jewish Americans and how they have struggled to survive together in the United States.
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c2008., A.A. Knopf Call No: 323.092 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Story of two icons for social justice, how they formed a remarkable friendship and turned their personal experiences of discrimination into a message of love and equality for all.
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[2008]., Juvenile, Dragonfly Books Call No: 323 .092 MICHELSON Edition: First Dragonfly Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the friendship between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rabbi Abraham Heschel who turned their dark human experiences into a message of hope, love, and equality while working together for freedom.
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2015, Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel in verse about the historical figure of Clara Lemlich, a Russian Jewish immigrant who came to New York City's Lower East Side in the early 1900s. Getting a job at a garment factory, Clara is appalled at the working conditions, and begins working tirelessly to gain women's rights in the workplace.
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[2015]., Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York"--Provided by publisher.
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[2015]., Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: HISTORICAL F CRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York.
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[2015], Adolescent, Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: HistoricalHistorical [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York"--Provided by publisher.
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[2015]., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Historical FIC Crowder Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel in verse about the historical figure of Clara Lemlich, a Russian Jewish immigrant who came to New York City's Lower East Side in the early 1900s. Getting a job at a garment factory, Clara is appalled at the working conditions, and begins working tirelessly to gain women's rights in the workplace.
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c2011., Adolescent, Cinco Puntos Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1928 in Massena, New York, Jewish sixteen-year-old Jack Pool, in love with his Christian neighbor, is accused of killling her little sister for a blood sacrifice.
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By Bick, Ilsa Jc2010., Carolrhoda Lab Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
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By Bick, Ilsa Jc2010., Adolescent, Carolrhoda Lab Call No: SUSPENSE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
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By Bick, Ilsa Jc2010., Adolescent, Carolrhoda Lab Call No: Mystery FIC BICK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
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2015, Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1970 Queens, New York, Julian Twerski, now in seventh grade, struggles to write an essay as punishment for an act he did not commit, worries about Beverly, the girl he likes, prepares for his bar mitzvah, and tries to cope with the serious illness of one of his closest friends, Quentin.
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[2014], Lucky Sky Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC FOLLETT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Three individuals experience prejudice differently against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, from 1954 to 1964, and each develops their own concept of freedom. Twelve-year-old Joan Barnes considers freedom her birthright as the child of upper middle class Yankee Catholics in Mississippi. C.J. Evans was born to a life of cleaning whitefolks' houses and freedom is what she holds in her heart and can't be taken from her. And for Zach Bernstein, a Jewish University of Chicago law student, freedom is an ever-expanding circle that can only get bigger. As the lives of these three collide when Zach comes to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to teach at the Meridian Freedom School, they will each come to question their concepts of freedom and what price they are willing to pay for it.
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2007., Juvenile, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: B SAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Picture-book biography of Haym Salomon, a Jewish emigrant who used his knowledge of languages and finance to help raise funds for the patriots during the Revolutionary War.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Algonquin Call No: HISTORICAL F CAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the very white, very Christian world of Altlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
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2019., Adolescent, Algonquin Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the very white, very Christian world of Altlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
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2010., Pre-adolescent, Farrar, Straus, Giroux Call No: Historical fiction FIC CHAPMAN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Edith is sent from her home in Germany in 1938 to live with her aunt and uncle in Chicago, Illinois, and escape Nazi persecution, but as she struggles to assimilate into American society, Edith worries about her parents and mourns the loss of everything she has known. Includes information on an American rescue operation that saved twelve hundred Jewish children between 1934 and 1945.
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c2000., Crabtree Call No: 973 .04924 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: We came to North AmericaSummary Note: Descriptive text and eyewitness accounts describe how Jews from around the world fled persecution in their homelands and came to North America.