New books of intermediate level for the month of American Jewish heritage

Finn and Ezra both have their Mitzvah bar on the same weekend and celebrate in the same hotel. Ezra is one of the five children, who has the impression that someone else in his family always needs attention, and Finn is a only child, who wants him to attract a little less attention from his parents. The two boys hope that the day will pass quickly, but they find themselves trapped in a time loop of their Mitzvah bar weekend again and again. Finn and Ezra understand how to move forward? Or will they be stuck forever?

We are in 1973, and Melanie Adler desperately wants to be part of the reflections: the most popular group of girls in his class. But Melanie thinks that she can never be as confident as reflections, especially since she struggles with the secret of her mother’s SSPT. When she became friends with the new daughter Dorit Shoshani, Melanie finally finds someone who can relate to her difficulties at home-but if sparkling want to include Melanie but not Dorit, which friend will she choose?

This epic story extends over 1492 to 2003, tracing the path of four daughters of a Jewish family through the generations. Starting with Benvenida, whose family flees the Spanish Inquisition and settled in Istanbul, to Cuba in the 1920s, the 1960s, and back to Spain in the 21st century, it is a beautiful story on the links through time and history.

When Alex makes a very bad choice, a judge sentenced him to a summer volunteer at Shady Glen withdrawn Home, under the supervision of the enthusiastic Maya-Jade. To Shady Glen, Alex, who has not seen his mother for a year and whose relatives do not want, thinks that residents are zombies waiting to die. Then he meets Josey, a 107 -year -old man who survived a concentration camp, and begins to tell his story to Alex.

Rosie is a 12 -year -old musical prodigy by synesthesia, which means that she sees music in color. Rosie’s mother dreams that she became a concert violinist, but Rosie is fighting for a “normal” life and comes out of the expectations of her mother. Rosie is sent to spend the summer with her grandparents, where she meets a new friend who, understands Rosie, is in a way her mother at the age of Rosie. With the help of this Glitch time, her grandparents and an improvisation group, Rosie learns to understand herself and her mother of new ways.

Max is a German Jewish boy who was sent to London by his parents to keep him safe during the Second World War. Devastated to be separated from his family and worried about their security, Max develops a plan to become a British spy and return to Germany with the help of a dybbuk named Stein and a Kobold named Berg, who permanently perched on his shoulders. Rapid rhythm full of action, Publishers Weekly Named the best book of the year.

Located during the Cold War, this novel from adulthood speaks of David Da-Wei Horowitz, an American Chinese and Jewish boy who is preparing for his bar bar, treating combat grannies and trying to understand how to speak to his crush, Kelli Ann. In addition, he is dealing with the threat of nuclear benefits, which inspires him and his friend Scott, to start building a fallout shelter. Can David juggle everything and go to the summer vacation?

Ariel Goldberg, twelve years old, is surrounded by change. We are in 1967 and his family has trouble keeping their Jewish bakery afloat while her sister has just run away with her Indian boyfriend after the Supreme Court Magnet c. Virginia Decision that legalized interracial marriage. It seems thatiel does not know what will happen next, and her only constant tries to find her own voice.