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Cover: Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast Ágnes Keleti
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Spring 2025

Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast Ágnes Keleti

Doing gymnastics, Ágnes Keleti feels free—until the day her coach tells her there's a new law in Hungary barring Jewish athletes from the gym. Once Germany sends soldiers into Budapest, they… Read More →

  • Dewey: 796.44092 [B]
  • Copyright: 2025
Cover: An Etrog from Across the Sea
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

An Etrog from Across the Sea

Praise for An Etrog from Across the Sea by Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky, illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueen: Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner Papa has promised to bring home a… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024

Engineer Arielle and the Israel Independence Day Surprise

Engineer Arielle drives a train in Jerusalem, just like her great-great-grandfather, Engineer Ari. Except she drives a light rail train, and today is a special day. It's Israel's Independence Read More →

  • Lexile: 610
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2017

Engineer Ari and the Passover Rush

Engineer Ari rushes to complete his final train ride to Jerusalem before Passover begins, but will he run out of time before getting the items he needs for his seder plate? Read More →

  • Lexile: 590
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2015

Engineer Ari and the Hanukkah Mishap

Hurrying home to celebrate Hanukkah, Engineer Ari screeches his train to a halt to avoid hitting a stubborn camel sitting on the tracks. The camel’s Bedouin owner invites Ari to his tent to… Read More →

  • Lexile: 750
  • ATOS: 4.0
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2011
Cover: Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story
Starred Review & Award Count 2

Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story

For generations Nachshon’s family has been enslaved by the Egyptian Pharaoh. Nachshon is afraid it will be his destiny too. Then Moses confronts the fearsome Pharaoh, and Nachshon’s dream of… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2009

The Seventh Day: A Shabbat Story

In this adaptation of the creation story, God creates desert canyons and riverbeds as a potter would, the leopard's spots and the zebra's stripes as a painter would, and the voices of… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2005
Cover: Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride
Starred Review & Award Count 1

Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride

A Rosh Hashanah story based on the first historic train ride from Jaffa to Jerusalem in 1892, shortening the journey between the two cities from 3 days to 3 hours. Engineer Ari's train is… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.7
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2008