8 books for young adults to read for the month of the American American heritage
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This can celebrate the month of the American American heritage with these great titles for young adults of Jewish authors. The month of Jewish American heritage recognizes the contributions of Jewish Americans in history, society, culture and literature and is the ideal moment to collect books that incorporate Judaism into their stories and the lives of their characters. Many organizations, including the Association of Jewish LibrariesTHE American Library Association,, Jewishand the Jewish books councilAll offer excellent resources and reading lists to celebrate and honor this month and readers of all ages can find books of books and recommendations to fill their reading lists.
In the genres for young adults, the famous American Jewish authors include the queen of stories of transition to adulthood, Judy Blume, the contemporary YA and the romantic writer Rachel Lynn Solomon, and the multi-genres writer Aden Polydoros, who all delighted the readers with their stories. Whether you are looking for a fantasy rooted in Jewish folklore, contemporary Jewish romance or contemporary fiction of the integration of your family and your community, the books below are sure of being superb readings!
The prohibited book by Sacha Lamb
At night before she is supposed to marry, Sorel, 17, escapes out a window and disguises herself like the young boy Isser Jacobs. While Sorel gets her path through her little town in the pale colonies, she discovers that the identity she took belonged to a real boy, and there are people who want the dead. Helped by a dybbuk and dodging censors, smugglers and dark forces, Sorel gets her path through an underground world to discover who was Jacobs and who she wants to be.
Summer nights and meteorites by Hannah Reynolds
Sydney Taylor’s honor of honor, Hannah Reynolds, is back with the third book of her Golden doors series. Jordan Edelman is ready to spend the summer to help his father during a research trip to Nantucket, which should help him keep his wish to go out until she goes to university. But then, she meets a very cute boy on the ferry, a very cute boy who turns out to be Ethan Barbanel: her father’s research assistant that Jordan has hated it from years. Add a talented astronomer and a mystery surrounding Gibson’s comet and Jordan’s summer promises to be one for books.
Just a hat by S. Khubiar
The first novel Ya by S. Khubiar took place in 1979 and filled with humor, sorrow and struggles for adulthood. Joseph Nissan, thirteen, is struggling to integrate as the only Jewish children in the small city in Texas in which his parents moved from Iran. During a year, Joseph will discover family secrets, will face school intimate, will fall for the daughter of a pastor and take care of harassment around the Iranian hostage crisis. This novel was a finalist of the National Jewish Book Award and one of the Kirkus’ Best historical fiction books ya.
Nightcug by Ar Vishny
Molly and Clara are sisters and pastries (female vampires of Jewish folklore) who run a historic day cinema and move in the owls at night. Clara is a follower of the rules that believe in never falling in love. Molly is in love with Anat, and when she disappears, Molly convinces Clara to break the rules and venture into New York hell to find her. This paranormal romance is a start for Ar Vishny and won the National Jewish Book Award and Sydney Taylor Book Award.
Yoyo Gold’s judgment by Isaac Blum
The last book of young adults from the award -winning author Isaac Blum tells the story of Yoyo Gold, who spent his life being the perfect and orthodox Jewish girl with a father who is a rabbi. Yoyo has always had the impression of integrating into his community, until one of his best friends is chased and that Yoyo begins to see conflicts that she had not previously had. Turning to Tiktok to share his feelings, Yoyo soon finds himself to become viral, which has consequences for his identity and his relationships with his family and his neighbors.
The ghosts of Rose Hill By RM Romero
Based on RM Romero’s experiences to restore Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe, The ghosts of Rose Hill is a story of magic ghosts in Prague. Ilana Lopez remains with her aunt in her artist’s chalet in Prague, where she discovers a Jewish cemetery behind the house of her aunt and the ghost of a boy named Benjamin who shows her the ghostly side of the city.
Color me by Natasha Díaz
Nevaeh Levitz, sixteen, has never spent much time thinking about her roots or having a black mother and a Jewish father while she was growing in a suburbs of New York. But when her parents separated, she presented her mother’s family to Harlem, where her cousins think that she passes for white and cannot understand them. Then his father decides that he wants her to have a late bat mitzvah for his sixteenth birthday. Caught between her two parents, Nevaeh is silent, until a secret makes surface and a new love forces her to face her past and her present.
Anger becomes by Aden Polydoros
The novel by Polydoros combines horror, fantasy and historical fiction in a fascinating history on a father of Lithuania of the Second World War. Pushed by sorrow for his daughter who was killed by the Nazis, he created a golem in his image to avenge his death. Vera, awakened by this magic, knows that she remembers a life that was not hers and must find what her creator wants, and what she is experiencing for the moment, when she confronts the darkest aspects of humanity.
For more major books by Jewish authors, see this list of 100 to read works of Jewish fiction and this Hey Ya! Episode celebrating the month of Jewish heritage.
