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Award-Winning Jewish Experience Books for Kids and Teens

The 2021 winners of the Sydney Taylor Book Award, presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience. These works are available in multiple formats.

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No vacancy [electronic resource].
Cohen, Tziporah.
Format: eBook

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Anya and the nightingale
Pasternack, Sofiya, author.
Format: Book

Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city. (Middle-grade novel.)

Anya and the nightingale [electronic resource].
Pasternack, Sofiya.
Format: eBook

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Anya and the nightingale
Pasternack, Sofiya.
Format: eAudiobook

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The Blackbird Girls
Blankman, Anne
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Valentina and Oksana have been raised by their Soviet society to hate one another because of their different religions. However, when their lives are upended by the Chernobyl disaster, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person and maybe even find a best friend. (Middle grade novel.)

The blackbird girls
Blankman, Anne, author.
Format: eBook

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The blackbird girls
Blankman, Anne, author.
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Dancing at the Pity Party
Feder, Tyler
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A graphic memoir about losing a parent to cancer. (Teen memoir.)

Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
Feder, Tyler, author, illustrator.
Format: eBook

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They Went Left
Hesse, Monica
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Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life. (Teen novel.)