8 books for young adults to read for a month of Jewish American heritage

On the night before they got married, 17-year-old Sorel escaped through the window and hid as a young boy Iser Jacobs. As Sorel is making her way through her small town in the pale settlement, she discovers that the identity she has taken belonged to a real boy, and there are people who want him dead. Aided by Dibbuk and avoiding censors, smugglers and dark forces, Sorel makes his way through the underworld to find out who is Icer Jacobs and who wants to be.

The author of the honor of Sydney Taylor Hannah Reynolds returns with the third book in her Gold doors Series. Jordan Edelman is ready to spend the summer helping his father on a research trip to Nantack, which should help her keep her vow to swear in dating until she left for college. But then she meets a very cute ferry boy, a very sweet boy who turns out to be Ethan Barbanel: her father’s research assistant, who Jordan hated from afar in years. Throw a talented astronomer and a mystery around Gibson’s comet and Jordan’s summer promises to be one for the books.

S. Khubiar Ya’s debut novel was set up in 1979 and is full of humor, heart pain and age struggles. Thirteen -year -old Joseph Nissan struggles to fit into one of the only Jewish children in the small town of Texas, to which his parents moved from Iran. For a year, Joseph will find family secrets, face the school thugs, fall for the daughter of a pastor, and deal with harassment around the Iranian hostage crisis. This novel was a finalist of the National Jewish Book Award and one of Kirkus The best YA historically fantastic books.

Molly and Clara are sisters and sisters (female vampires of Jewish folklore) who rule a historic cinema during the day and become owls at night. Clara is a follower of a rule who believes she never falls in love. Molly is in love with Anat and when she disappears, Molly convinces Clara to break the rules and embark on the underworld of New York to find her. This paranormal romance is a debut for AR Vishny and won the National Award for the Jewish Book and the Sydney Taylor Book Award.

The award-winning author of the latest adult book of Isaac Bloom tells the story of Yoyo Gold, who spent her life as a perfect, Orthodox Jewish daughter with a father who is a rabbi. Yoyo has always felt in her community, until one of her best friends is expelled and Yoyo begins to see conflicts she has not had before. Turning to Tiktok to share her feelings, Yoyo soon turns out to be a viral, which comes with consequences for her identity and her relationship with her family and neighbors.

Based on the experience of RM Romero Restoration of Jewish Cemetery in Eastern Europe, The ghosts of Rose Hill is a magical ghostly story placed in Prague. Ilana Lopez stays with her aunt in her artist’s house in Prague, where she finds a Jewish cemetery behind her aunt’s home and the ghost of a boy named Benjamin, which shows her the ghostly side of the city.

Sixteen -year -old Neva Levitz has never spent much time thinking about her roots or that she has a black mother and a Jewish father, as she grew up in a New York suburb. But when her parents parted, she meets her mother’s family in Harlem, where her cousins ​​think she goes white and cannot understand them. Then her father decides that she wants her to have a late bat, a mitzva for her sixteenth birthday. Caught between her two parents, Nevae is silent as she emerges a secret and a new love forced her to face her past and present.

Polydoros’s novel combines horror, fantasy and historical fiction into a fascinating story for a father in Lithuania from World War II. Guided by a grief for his daughter, killed by the Nazis, he creates a great man in her image to take revenge on her death. Vera, awakened by this magic, knows that she remembers a life that has not been hers and has to find what her Creator wants and what she lives so far, since she is confronted with the most human aspects.