Lesléa Newman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, and even after the professor has a fatal heart attack while at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return until the day the dog dies. Based on a true story; includes an author's note and glossary of Japanese words.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Brings to life a not too distant history of immigration to Ellis Island. When it's time for nine-year-old Gittel and her mother to leave their homeland behind and go to America for the promise of a new life, a health inspection stops any chance of Gittel's mother joining her daughter on the voyage. Knowing she may never see her mother again, Gittel must find the courage within herself to leave her family behind"--
7) Fat chance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In a series of diary entries, thirteen-year-old Judi recounts her struggles to lose weight, hide her bulimia from her mother, find a boy friend, and decide on a profession.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"What a happy day! Zachary's baby sister will have her naming ceremony. In the temple! With his moms, the congregation, and all their friends! He's so excited he can barely contain it. On the walk from their home, they meet neighbor after neighbor who want to know the baby's name. But - not yet! - his mothers tell him. The tradition is to have a great reveal at the ceremony. So they invite each neighbor to come along. A colorful, diverse parade blooms...
14) Runaway dreidel!
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In this rhyming tale in the style of "The Night before Christmas," a family's preparations for Chanukah are disrupted by a wildly spinning dreidel.
16) Just like mama
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young girl enumerates all the things that her mother does in inimitable fashion, from scooping her up in a hug in the morning to tucking her in at night.
17) A sweet Passover
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Miriam learns the meaning of Passover when her grandfather makes a special matzah dish. Includes recipe for matzah brei (similar to French toast, but with unleavened bread), and a glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish words used in the text.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
"Spanning the years 1988 to 2002, a time when she published six collections of short fiction, this volume contains the very best of Leslea Newman, perhaps the most influential writer of lesbian fiction today. Included is the author's signature piece, "A Letter to Harvey Milk," wherein Harry Weinberg, a 77-year-old Holocaust survivor, takes a writing class during which he unearths memories that force both him and his writing teacher, a Jewish lesbian,...