Sonia Levitin

Even before they immigrate to America, Hanna and her family dream of the new life they will have there. 'You will see, Hanna,' Papa said. 'There are streets of gold.' But when they arrive, they find life very different from what they had imagined. Their apartment is small and Hanna and her brothers must sleep on a mattress on the floor. Mama spends her days knitting shawls and sweaters to sell on the streets but no one stops to buy. And Papa can find...

Explains all the things that Elephant should know about how to behave when attending a birthday or other kind of party.

An old woman is taunted by the lighthouse keeper for feeding theabandoned cats that live near the lighthouse, but when she falls ill, he has a change of heart.

Amanda travels by stagecoach with her four siblings and her mother from Missouri to California to join her father.

A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.

A sixteen-year-old boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the anti-Semitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.

Her experiences at a summer camp in the California mountains in 1945 give twelve-year-old Annie Platt new insight into her overprotective family of German-Jewish immigrants. Sequel to "Silver Days."

A high school senior, concerned about the fight for women's rights, finds herself suspended from school and the focus of community debate following a confrontation at a swim meet during which she removed her shirt.

While traveling in Israel for the summer, seventeen-year-old Mitch decides to stay and pursue a life of Jewish orthodoxy, forcing him to make some important decisions about the family and life he is leaving in southern California.

Having once had his heart broken, Jack keeps it in a bucket safefrom harm until one day a young maiden asks him to solve a riddle which teaches him the true meaning of love.