Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Sydney Taylor Award for Jewish Childrens Books Winners, 1990-Present
The Passover Guest
Kusel, Susan, author.
In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the...
How to Find What You're Not Looking For
Hiranandani, Veera, author.
"New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor-winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Gol...
Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale With a Tail
Newman, Lesléa, author.
Inside the house, a boy prepares for the Passover ritual of welcoming Elijah--meanwhile, outside th...
Turtle Boy
Wolkenstein, M. Evan, author.
Seventh-grader Will's Bar Mitzvah community service project, visiting an incurably ill older bo...
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
Macy, Sue.
Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements,...
White Bird: A Wonder Story
Palacio, R. J.
Also available in Hoopla. Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jew...
All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah
Jenkins, Emily.
In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner,...
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Auxier, Jonathan.
Also available in Overdrive. In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Na...
The Language of Angels: A Story About the Reinvention of Hebrew
Michelson, Richard.
Once there was a child without a friend. Ben-Zion's father insisted that his son speak only He...
Refugee
Gratz, Alan.
Also available in Overdrive. Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy livi...
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Levy, Debbie.
Also available in Overdrive. Traces the achievements of the celebrated Supreme Court justice through...
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
Gidwitz, Adam.
Also available in Overdrive. Crossing paths at an inn, thirteenth-century travelers impart the tales...
Ketzel, The Cat Who Composed
Newman, Lesléa.
"Moshe Cotel was a composer who lived in a noisy building on a noisy street in a noisy city. B...
Adam and Thomas
Apelfeld, Aharon.
Also available in Overdrive. Adam and Thomas, two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War I...
My Grandfather's Coat
Aylesworth, Jim.
A tailor's very old overcoat is recycled numerous times over the years into a variety of garme...
Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust
Dauvillier, Loïc.
"A grandmother shares the story of her experiences in WWII with her grandchild in this graphic...
The Longest Night: A Passover Story
Snyder, Laurel.
A child in Egypt tells what the Jews are experiencing in the days leading up to their flight from E...
The Blessing Cup
Polacco, Patricia.
A single china cup from a tea set left behind when Jews were forced to leave Russia helps hold a fa...
Gathering Sparks
Schwartz, Howard.
A grandfather introduces his grandson to the Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, a centuries-old conce...
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
Deutsch, Barry.
Eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg dreams of fighting dragons and spends her days honing her skills, ...
New Year at the Pier: A Rosh Hashanah Story
Wayland, April Halprin.
On Rosh Hashanah, Izzy and his family make lists of the wrongs they have committed over the past ye...
The importance of wings
Friedman, Robin.
Also available in Hoopla. Although she longs to be an all-American girl, Roxanne, a timid, Israeli-...
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
Engle, Margarita.
Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents ag...
As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March toward Freedom
Michelson, Richard.
Also available in Overdrive. Provides the story of the friendship of civil rights leader Martin Luth...
Hanukkah at Valley Forge
Krensky, Stephen.
During the Revolutionary War, a Jewish soldier from Poland lights the menorah on the first night of...
Confessions of a Closet Catholic
Littman, Sarah.
To be more like her best friend, eleven-year-old Justine decides to give up Judaism to become Catho...

Bagels from Benny
Davis, Aubrey.
Also available in Hoopla. Benny loves to help out at his grandpa's bakery in the morning, and t...
Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
Levine, Karen.
Also available in Hoopla. A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating...
Gershon's Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year
Kimmel, Eric A.
When his sins threaten the lives of his beloved twin children, a Jewish man finally repents of his ...
Stones in Water
Napoli, Donna Jo.
After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys inclu...
When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street
Rael, Elsa.
While staying with her grandparents in New York City in the mid-1930s, eight-year-old Zeesie joins ...
Star of Fear, Star of Hope
Hoestlandt, Jo.
Nine-year-old Helen is confused by the disappearance of her Jewish friend during the German occupat...
The Always Prayer Shawl
Oberman, Sheldon.
A prayer shawl is handed down from grandfather to grandson in this story of Jewish tradition and th...
The Shadow Children
Schnur, Steven.
While spending the summer on his grandfather's farm in the French countryside, eleven-year-old...
Letters from Rifka
Hesse, Karen.
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 19...
Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale
Goldin, Barbara Diamond.
Young, blind Hershel finds that he has special gifts he can use to help his mother during the Jewis...
The Chanukkah Guest
Kimmel, Eric A.
On the first night of Chanukkah, Old Bear wanders into Bubba Brayna's house and receives a del...