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2) Herzog
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness. Like the protagonists of most of Bellow's novels—Dangling Man, The Victim, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing. Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history-the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president-is soon to be an HBO limited series.
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The discovery of a packet of old letters sends seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg to Nantucket to unravel a family mystery about her grandmother's past, but things get complicated when Abby meets the cute grandson of a prominent family who wants to stop her from investigating.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
9) Color me in
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
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