© Hannah Meyer-Winkler
2010–2011 NETWORK AUTHORS
Anne Katz
Debbie Levy
Susan Lynn Meyer
GIRL IN THE KNOW: YOUR INSIDEAND-OUT GUIDE TO GROWING UP
MAYBE I’LL SLEEP IN THE BATHTUB TONIGHT: AND OTHER FUNNY BEDTIME POEMS
BLACK RADISHES
KidsCan Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-55453-303-9 A straight-talking little manual packed with everything a girl should know about the many changes she can expect in puberty and how to make her way through it all as smoothly as possible.
Sterling Publishing, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-4027-4944-5 From a “bunkbed king” who rules from up high to monsters who are not (I repeat, NOT) in the closet, Maybe I’ll Sleep in the Bathtub Tonight truly captures the childhood experience of going to sleep.
Delacorte Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-385-73881-1 Black Radishes is the suspenseful tale of one boy in 1940 who learns what it means to be both Jewish and French at a time when everything is changing.
Haya Leah Molnar
UNDER A RED SKY: MEMOIR OF A CHILDHOOD IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA
THE LITTLE RED HEN AND THE PASSOVER MATZAH Holiday House, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8234-1952-4 In this rollicking version of a favorite folktale, a harried, hardworking hen finds the true meaning of Passover.
Debbie Levy
THE YEAR OF GOODBYES: A TRUE STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, FAMILY, AND FAREWELLS Disney-Hyperion, 2010 ISBN: 9781423129011 Throughout 1938, Jutta had her friends and relatives fill her poesiealbum—her autograph book—with inscriptions. Her daughter, Debbie Levy, used these entries as a springboard for telling the story of the Salzberg family’s last year in Germany.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-374-31840-6 Molnar captures with heartbreaking precocity the very adult realities of living behind the Iron Curtain in this unique memoir of her childhood.
© Chelsea Hadley
Leslie Kimmelman
Dana Reinhardt
SAY HELLO, LILY
THE THINGS A BROTHER KNOWS
Kar-Ben Publishing, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7613-4511-4 On Lily’s first visit to Shalom House, a Jewish senior housing complex, she clings closely to her mom, overwhelmed by all the new faces. But slowly Lily joins the activities, makes new friends, and celebrates a birthday to remember.
Wendy Lamb Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-375-84455-3 When Levi’s older brother Boaz returns from a tour in the Middle East as a Marine, Levi senses that something is different. When Boaz says he’s leaving to hike the Appalachian Trail, Levi knows he’s lying and sets out to follow his brother on his mysterious journey to discover just what Boaz is dealing with in the aftermath of his experiences at war.
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Deborah Lakritz
Sarah Darer Littman
LIFE, AFTER Scholastic Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-545-15144-3 After Daniela’s aunt is killed in a bombing in Buenos Aires her family moves to America. In her new life, the one “After,” Dani learns how to heal and forgive. She finds the courage to say goodbye and allows herself to love and be loved again.
Fall 5771/2010
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