It\u2019s the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of Jewish Book Month<\/strong><\/a>! What started as a weeklong celebration in 1925 is now a monthlong event commemorated by Jewish communities across the country in the lead-up to Hanukkah. This year, the event runs through December 13, so there\u2019s still plenty of time to snag an armful (or two) of books by Jewish authors before the Festival of Lights is upon us. Below, some new (and not-so-new) MG books to check out:<\/p>\n Becky, a 12-year-old flautist, has a lot on her plate. Not only does she need to be as perfect as her older siblings, but her upcoming bat mitzvah needs to be perfect too. She\u2019s the rabbi\u2019s daughter after all. The trouble is, Becky\u2019s intentions often lead her astray, which results in a big secret she keeps from her parents.<\/p>\n But Becky discovers that her older sister, Sara, has an even bigger <\/em>secret; one that could turn the family upside down. The sisters couldn\u2019t be more ready to keep each other\u2019s secret safe, until the excitement turns to guilt, and Becky is forced to make an impossible choice.<\/p>\n When Evie Steinberg\u2019s family moves right before seventh grade, she promises her dad that everything will go perfectly<\/span>. Perfect means taking care of her little sister, fitting in at her new school, and never complaining or causing problems. Perfect definitely<\/em> doesn\u2019t<\/span> mean failing math class and getting bullied by a girl who\u2019s turning the whole school against her.<\/p>\n Evie needs to fix her life before anyone finds out she\u2019s struggling. When she uses her cryptozoologist skills, acquired from her dad, to figure out the real reason her bully decided to target her, Evie realizes that she holds the key to fixing everything. She just needs proof. But how far is Evie willing to go to reveal the truth?<\/p>\n What could be more humiliating than your mom dating your assistant principal? Evie\u2019s about to find out in this hilarious, big-hearted novel about surviving the uncertainties of middle school, sticking up for what you believe, and becoming the person you\u2019re meant to be.<\/p>\n Rose is a good girl. She listens to her parents and follows every rule. Talia, the new girl from New York City, doesn\u2019t think so. After only a week at school, Talia is already making enemies. First on the list: Charlotte, Rose\u2019s lifelong best friend. So why can\u2019t Rose stop wondering what it would be like to be Talia\u2019s friend? And why does Rose read a banned book that Talia recommends? Rose doesn\u2019t know. But the forbidden book makes her ask questions she\u2019s never thought of. When Talia suggests they start a banned books club, how can Rose say no?<\/p>\n Pushing against her parents, her school, and even her BFF opens a new world for Rose. But when Talia\u2019s escapades become more scary than exciting, Rose must decide when it\u2019s right to keep quiet and when it\u2019s time to speak out.<\/p>\n After committing an unspeakable act of violence, Alex,12, is sentenced to court-mandated volunteer work at a retirement home. He hasn\u2019t seen his mom in a year, his aunt and uncle don\u2019t want him, and the geriatric residents at Shady Glen seem like zombies.<\/p>\n Josey is 107 and ready for his life to be over. He\u2019s evaded death many times, having survived ghettos, dragnets, and a concentration camp. But now Josey spends his days at Shady Glen, refusing to speak and waiting to die. Until Alex knocks on Josey\u2019s door, and Josey tells Alex his story. An unlikely bond grows between them and soon a new possibility opens up for Alex. Can he rise to the occasion of his life, even if it means confronting the worst thing he\u2019s ever done?<\/p>\n [To learn more about Not Nothing<\/em>, check out my interview with Gayle Forman here]<\/a><\/p>\n 12-year-old Shaindy, an Orthodox Jewish girl who struggles socially and academically, is envious of her next-door neighbor, Gayil, who has tons of friends and does well in school. The two move in completely different orbits, until the evening Shaindy looks out her window and sees Gayil holding a sign: Want to know a secret?<\/em> Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But havoc breaks loose when someone sneaks into their school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Who would do such a thing?<\/p>\n Because Michael was the first person to see it, he\u2019s the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone\u2019s looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana\u2019s the only Jewish girl in the whole town, everyone\u2019s treating her more like an outsider than ever.<\/p>\n The mystery deepens as more swastikas begin to appear. Some students fight back and start a project to bring people. The closer Link, Michael, and Dana get to the truth, the more there is to face. Not just the crimes of the present, but the crimes of the past.<\/p>\n Honey and Milla, who live in close-knit Jewish community, have been best friends for as long as Milla can remember. The girls do everything together, including delivering meals to their elderly neighbor, shopping at a local thrift store, celebrating the holidays, and going to their first Bat Mitzvahs while studying for their own. But when Honey enrolls in Milla\u2019s school for sixth grade, it\u2019s not as great as Milla expected. Will Milla find the courage to step out of Honey\u2019s shadow and into her own spotlight\u2014or will jealousy and fear get the better of her?<\/p>\n Ellen Katz is a neurodivergent 13-year-old who feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out, and when and people fit neatly into predefined categories. Ellen attends temple with Abba and Mom every Friday and Saturday, she only gets crushes on girls\u2014never boys\u2014and she relies on her BFF, Laurel, to help navigate social situations at school. Laurel has always made Ellen feel like being autistic is no big deal, but lately Laurel has started making new friends and cancelling weekend plans. A school trip to Barcelona seems like the perfect place for Ellen to get their friendship back on track, but life doesn\u2019t always stick to a planned itinerary.<\/p>\n Twelve-year-old Daisy\u2019s life is shattered when her best friend, Ruby, is killed in a tragic accident.\u00a0Now Daisy finds herself having to face the major challenges in her life, like starting middle school and becoming a big sister, without Ruby by her side. Despite her sadness\u2014and thanks to new friends, new insights, and supportive family members\u2014Daisy is able to see what life after Ruby can look like, and that friendship is eternal.<\/p>\n In 1492, during the Spanish Inquisition, Benvenida and her family are banished from Spain for being Jewish. They journey by foot and by sea, eventually settling in Istanbul. Over four centuries later, in1923, \u00a0shortly after the Turkish war of independence, Reina\u2019s father disowns her for a small act of disobedience. He ships her away to live with an aunt in Cuba. In 1961, Reina\u2019s daughter, Alegra, is proud to be a brigadista, teaching literacy in the countryside. But soon Fidel Castro\u2019s crackdowns force her to flee to Miami, leaving her parents behind. In\u00a02003, Alegra\u2019s daughter, Paloma,\u00a0is fascinated by all the journeys that had to happen before she could be born. A keeper of memories, she\u2019s thrilled to learn more about her heritage on a trip to Spain, where she makes a momentous discovery.<\/p>\n Max Bretzfeld doesn\u2019t want to move London, where he\u2019ll be alone for the first time in his life. But not for long. Max is soon joined by two unexpected traveling companions, one on each shoulder: a kobold and a dybbuk named Berg and Stein.<\/p>\n Germany is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but Max is determined to find a way back home\u2013and back to his parents. He has a plan to return to Berlin. The problem is, it involves accomplishing the impossible: becoming a British spy.<\/p>\n In Book 2, Max\u2019s training is complete and his missions have begun. But nothing is as he expected. His parents are missing, Nazi intelligence is watching him, and the lines between lies and truth are becoming more blurred every day. Max will need every tool at his disposal, from his radio expertise and spy training to the help of Berg and Stein, the immortal creatures living on his shoulders. Still, there\u2019s no guarantee he\u2019ll make it out of Berlin alive.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the spring of 1973, and Melanie Adler is desperate to be accepted by the Shimmers, the popular girls at her middle school. But the secret of her mom\u2019s PTSD lurks in the shadows, and as hard as Melanie tries, she can\u2019t act as cool and confident as the Shimmers. Then, when she meets Dorit Shoshani, a confident new student who\u2019s got troubles of her own, Melanie learns what true friendship actually feels like. But she\u2019s torn between her bond with Dorit and her chance at popularity. Which one will she choose?<\/p>\n Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg\u2019s life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family\u2019s Jewish bakery runs into financial trouble, and her older sister has eloped with a young man from India following the 1967 Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage. As change becomes Ariel\u2019s only constant, she\u2019s left to hone something that will be with her always\u2013her own voice.<\/p>\n Lockdown is over, but A\u2019s world feels smaller than ever. Coming out as trans didn\u2019t go well, and most days he barely leaves his bedroom. But the low point of A\u2019s life isn\u2019t online school, missing his bar mitzvah, or the fact that his parents monitor his phone. It\u2019s the weekly Save Our Sons and Daughters (SOSAD) meetings his parents drag him to, where <\/span>A and his friends Sal and Yarrow sit by while their parents deadname them and lament a nonexistent \u201ctransgender craze.\u201d\u00a0<\/span> When Yarrow vanishes after a particularly confrontational meeting, A discovers that SOSAD doesn\u2019t just\u00a0feel<\/em> soul-sucking, it\u2019s run by an actual demon who feeds off the pain and misery of kids like him. And it\u2019s not just SOSAD. The entire world is beset by demons dining on what seems like an endless buffet of pain and bigotry. But how is one trans kid supposed to save his friend, let alone the world?<\/p>\n Ten-year-old Eden\u2019s life is upended when she saves a paper wasp nest and discovers that she and its haughty queen can talk to each other. This first conversation is the start of a grand adventure, leading Eden to The Institute for Lower Learning, a secret laboratory devoted to the peaceful coexistence of humans and insects.<\/p>\n August is an aspiring actor and bullied fourth-grader who wants to squash every annoying bug into oblivion. After all, insects are small and he is big. And if there is anything he\u2019s learned from the bullies at school, it\u2019s that being bigger is what counts. But in the world of the Institute where insects have a place of their own, both Eden and August discover being bigger isn\u2019t necessarily better and sometimes the most courageous thing to do is to set out to make a new friend.<\/p>\n On the same day Faye\u2019s brother comes home with a black eye, a package arrives from a relative they\u2019ve never met. It\u2019s a slab of clay. The strange gift turns out to be an invitation to learn a craft that has been in their family for centuries. And it\u2019s not pottery.<\/p>\n Faye and Shiloh drive to New York City with their grandfather for a spring break filled with magical instruction. But at night, they find themselves transported to a strange parallel world, where groups of innocent people are facing hatred and violence. Are Faye and Shiloh destined to defend them? How is that possible for a brainy, unpopular eleven-year-old and her vulnerable older brother?<\/p>\n Rosie Solomon, 12, is a musical prodigy whose synesthesia allows her to see music in colors. Her mom has always pushed her to become a concert violinist, but this summer Rosie wants a \u201cnormal\u201d life and is sent to stay with her grandparents. While there, Rosie meets another girl her age\u2013a girl who seems awfully familiar. Rosie quickly pieces it together and realizes that somehow, this girl is her mother, when she was twelve. Thanks to this glitch in time\u2013plus her grandparents\u2019 love, an improv group, and a new instrument\u2013Rosie comes to understand her mother, herself, and her love of music.<\/p>\n Finn and Ezra are trapped in a bar mitzvah time loop, reliving their celebrations in the same New Jersey hotel, over and over (and over) again. Ezra comes from a big family, with four siblings who seem to get all the attention, and Finn is an only child who\u2019s tired of his parents\u2019 constant focus, particularly on his bar mitzvah weekend. Teaming up, the boys try to break the loop, but nothing works. As their frustrations mount, real-life problems start to seep through the cracks. With all the time in the world, can Finn and Ezra figure out how to finally move forward?<\/p>\n Life used to be simple for Zipporah \u201cZippy\u201d Chava McConnell, a 13-year-old witch\u2014that is, before her best friend, Bea, started acting funny and everyone at school thought she was weird. And to make matters worse, Zippy\u2019s mom is making her prepare for a bat mitzvah, even though Zippy\u2019s family barely goes to synagogue. But then one day Zippy finds a strange red book at the library and conjures a girl\u2014a beautiful girl named Miriam, with no memory, and wings like an angel. Now it\u2019s up to Zippy to help Miriam figure out what she is, and where she came from.\u00a0And if can do that, maybe everything else in her life will make sense, too.<\/p>\n Benji Zeb has a lot going on. Not only does he have a lot of studying to do\u2014for school as well as for his upcoming bar mitzvah\u2014he\u2019s nervous about Mr. Rutherford, a local rancher who hates Benji\u2019s family\u2019s kibbutz and wolf sanctuary. Plus, Benji hasn\u2019t figured out what to do about Caleb, Mr. Rutherford\u2019s stepson, who\u2019s been bullying him at school, despite Benji wanting to be friends (and maybe something more). To complicate matters, secretly, Benji and his family are werewolves who are using the wolf sanctuary as cover for their true identities.<\/p>\n Things come to a head when Caleb shows up at the kibbutz one night . . . in wolf form. He\u2019s a werewolf too, unable to control his shifting, and he needs Benji\u2019s help. Can anxious Benji juggle all of these things along with his growing feelings toward Caleb?<\/p>\n Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and he and his twin sister have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away.<\/p>\n Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he suggests paying his debt by leading them to the fabled city of Luz, where no one ever dies\u2014the one place Pesah will be safe.They just need to run faster than The Angel of Death can fly\u2026<\/p>\n Rebecca Reznik, 13, is knee deep in family drama. Her dad lost his job, her parents are fighting all the time, and her annoying brother, Jake, is acting out more than usual. Then, when a goblin turns her bedroom upside down\u2014literally\u2014Becca realizes that the bad juju in her house is more sinister, and more complicated, than she had first imagined. With her best friends, Naomi and Eitan, by her side\u2014and armed with the lessons she learned from her last tussle with mythological creatures from Jewish lore in the 2022 sequel,\u00a0Naomi Teitelbaum Ends the World<\/em>\u2014Becca will do whatever it takes to defend her family and save the Hanukkah.<\/p>\n Shira and Esther are shocked when they first meet: It\u2019s like looking in a mirror! Despite the girls\u2019 identical appearance, they couldn\u2019t be more different. Shira dreams of singing and dancing onstage, but her father, a stern and pious rabbi, wants Shira to focus on her religious studies. Esther, on the other hand, dreams of studying Torah, but her glamorous, stage-performer mom, frowns on Esther\u2019s studious ways.\u00a0Then, thanks to Benny, a 14-year-old bellhop at Scheinfeld\u2019s Resort and Cottages, the girls plan a\u00a0Parent Trap<\/em>-style switcheroo, to help the Shira and Esther make their dreams come true. Or\u00a0sort of<\/em>\u00a0true\u2026<\/p>\n In the aftermath of a bullying incident at school, where Jewish fifth-grader Ava and her cousin Nadeem, are called hateful names, the cousins\u2019 Granny Buena shares with them a glittering crystal button box, packed with buttons that generations of Ava\u2019s Sephardic ancestors have cherished. With the help of Granny\u2019s mysterious cat, Sheba, the cousins discover that a button from the button box will take them back in time. Suddenly, they are in ancient Morocco, where Nadeem\u2019s ancestor, Prince Abdur Rahman, is running for his life. Can the cousins help the prince escape to Spain and fulfill his destiny, creating a Golden Age for Muslims, Jews and Christians?<\/p>\n Celebrate Hanukkah with a diverse collection of poems and stories filled with history, humor, and hope. Cheer on a young baker as he tries to make sufganiyot<\/em> from a family recipe; learn about code breakers in WWII England; and imagine hosting a refugee cousin or finding long-lost relatives. In this anthology, characters make discoveries, connect with family and friends, and mourn loved ones. Encompassing a range of genres and experiences, there\u2019s something for readers of all faiths.<\/p>\n What does it mean to become an adult in your faith? Join thirteen diverse characters as they experience anxiety, doubt, and self-discovery while preparing for their B\u2019nai Mitzvah. And whether celebrating with a lavish party or in reception room with an accordion player, the Jewish rite of passage remains the same. Filled with humor, hope, and history, there\u2019s something in this anthology for every reader. (Don\u2019t miss my story, \u201cGrandma Merle\u2019s Last Wish,\u201d on page 193. :))<\/p>\n In this collection of short stories, 14 middle-grade authors each reimagine a different step of the Passover seder\u2014a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs, where families and friends gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt\u2014via historical and contemporary fiction, verse and prose, fiction and nonfiction.<\/p>\n Eleven-year-old Kat Greene attends fifth grade at the Village Humanity school, a hippie-dippy progressive school in New York\u2019s Greenwich Village. At the moment, Kat has three major problems: dealing with her boy-crazy best friend, Halle; partnering with the overzealous Sam in the class production of Harriet the Spy; <\/span><\/em>and coping with her mother\u2019s preoccupation with cleanliness, a symptom of her worsening OCD. With nowhere to turn\u2013and hesitant to tell her dad, who\u2019s busy with his new family uptown\u2013Kat reaches out to Olympia Rabinowitz, the free-spirited psychologist at her school. Later, after many \u00a0soul-searching sessions with Olympia, Kat realizes that asking for help is the best way to clean up life\u2019s messes.<\/p>\n Melissa Roske<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer of middle-grade fiction. Before spending her days with imaginary people, she interviewed real ones as a journalist in Europe. In London she landed a job as an advice columnist for\u00a0Just Seventeen <\/em>magazine. Upon returning to her native New York, Melissa contributed to several books and magazines and selected jokes for Reader\u2019s Digest<\/em> (just the funny ones). In addition to her debut novel Kat Greene Comes Clean <\/em>(Charlesbridge), Melissa\u2019s short story \u201cGrandma Merle\u2019s Last Wish\u201d appears in the Jewish middle-grade anthology,\u00a0Coming of Age: 13 B\u2019Nai Mitzvah Stories<\/em> (Albert Whitman). Learn more about Melissa on her Website<\/a> and follow her on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Like<\/span><\/span> Loading…<\/span><\/p>\nContemporary Fiction<\/h3>\n
The Trouble with Secrets<\/a> by Naomi Milliner (Quill Tree Books, 2025)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nA Field Guide to Broken Promises<\/a> by Leah Stecher (Bloomsbury, 2025)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nTrouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz<\/a> by Diana Harmon Asher (PJ Publishing, 2025)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nBanned Books, Crop Tops, and Other Bad Influences<\/a> by Brigit Young (Roaring Brook Press, 2024)<\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nNot Nothing<\/a> by Gayle Forman (Aladdin, 2024)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nThe Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman<\/a> by Mari Lowe (Levine Querido, 2023)<\/h4>\n
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It turns out that Gayil has a key fob that will allow the pair to break into their school after hours. The pair plot a prank, but under Gayil\u2019s leadership, mischief turns into malice, and Shaindy sees that the pranks are targeted at certain girls only. The question is, why<\/em>? With the fear of Gayil\u2019s fury and her own reluctance growing, Shaindy comes to the terrifying conclusion that if she can\u2019t figure out how to stop the pranks and humiliations, the next target could be her.<\/p>\nLinked<\/a> by Gordon Korman (Scholastic, 2023)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nHoney and Me<\/a> by Meira Drazin (Scholastic, 2022)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nEllen Outside the Lines<\/a> by A.J. Sass (2022)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nRepairing the World<\/a> by Linda Epstein (Aladdin, 2022)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nHistorical Fiction<\/h3>\n
Across So Many Seas<\/a> by Ruth Behar (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2025)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nMax in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II<\/a> by Adam Gidwitz and Max in the Land of Lies<\/a> (Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2024 and 2025)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nThings That Shimmer<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Deborah Lakritz (Kar-Ben, 2024)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nHow to Find What You\u2019re Not Looking For<\/a> by Veera Hiranandani (Kokila, 2022)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nFantasy and Magical Realism<\/h3>\n
A World Worth Saving<\/a> by Kyle Lukoff (Dial Books, 2025)<\/h4>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nThe Big Dreams of Small Creatures<\/a> by Gail Lerner (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024)<\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nGolemcrafters<\/a> by Emi Watanabe Cohen (Levine Querido, 2024)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nThe Color of Sound<\/a> by Emily Barth Isler (Carolrhoda Books, 2024)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nFinn and Ezra\u2019s Bar Mitzvah Time Loop<\/a> by Joshua S. Levy (Quill Tree Books, 2024)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nThe Witch of Woodland<\/a> by Laurel E. Snyder (Waldon Pond Press, 2024)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nBenji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf<\/a>\u00a0by Deke Moulton (Tundra Books, 2024)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nBlack Bird, Blue Road<\/a> by Sofiya Pasternack (Versify, 2023)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nRebecca Reznik Reboots The Universe<\/a> by Samara Shanker (Atheneum, 2023)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nShira and Esther\u2019s Double Dream Debut<\/a> by Anna E. Jordan (Chronicle Books, 2023)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nThe Button Box<\/strong><\/a> by Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams; Harshad Marathe, illustrator (Kar-Ben Publishing, 2022)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nAnthologies<\/h3>\n
The Festival of Lights: 16 Hanukkah Stories<\/a>, edited by Henry Herz (Albert Whitman, 2024)<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nComing of Age: 13 B\u2019Nai Mitzvah Stories<\/a>, edited by Jonathan Rosen and Henry Herz (Albert Whitman, 2023)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nOn All Other Nights: A Passover Celebration in 14 Stories<\/a>, edited by Chris Baron, Joshua S. Levy, and Naomi Milliner (Amulet Books, 2024)<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nAnd last but not least\u2026<\/h3>\n
Kat Greene Comes Clean<\/a> by Melissa Roske<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nLike this:<\/h3>\n
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