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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, New York is swarming with Europe's ousted dreamers, alien families adapting to a new world. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters the lives of one such family when she answers an ad for an "assistant" to a Herr Mitwisser, the patriarch of a large household living in an obscure little neighborhood, in a remote corner of the sparse and weedy northeast Bronx. With an uncertain future, and no clear idea of her duties, Rose-orphaned at eighteen...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Asher Lev, born into a devout Jewish family and community, struggles to reconcile his burning need to create art with the restrictions and expectations placed on him by his faith and his people.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape...
4) The chosen
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss,...
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