It's 1962, and all across America barriers are collapsing. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of justice, the words are not a rebuff but...

A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement.

"Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents file for divorce, and just like that her childhood seems to be over. Among this world of confusing beginnings,...

"Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez--a biracial Jewish girl--finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career. When she discovers a forgotten Jewish cemetery behind her aunt's cottage, she meets the ghost of a kindhearted boy named Benjamin, who died over a century ago. As Ilana restores Benjamin's grave, he...

"While facing disturbing revelations about the cause of her disability, a high school junior with cerebral palsy is on the verge of giving up on herself until she learns that her childhood crush has moved back into town." -- Jenna's never let her cerebral palsy get her down. When she discovers that her condition was actually caused by an injury at birth, she's furious with her parents for withholding the truth. Now they're pushing her to get yet...

"Based on newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of World War II, this graphic nonfiction book presents the stories of six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition and angst."--

A nymphet who was already turning men's heads in her pre-teens recounts her story. She is Elizabeth Taube from a well-off family in Great Neck, New York. After an apprenticeship in the backroom of a kind, old furrier, she progresses to an affair with her favorite school teacher, then onto Huddie, a black basketball player. By the author of Come to Me.

Relates the stories of Jewish teenagers who were sent to Nazi concentration camps where they were separated from their families and survived years of exhausting labor, scarce food, and cruel guards.