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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can believe Margaret doesn’t have religion, and that...
2) Sam I am
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sam, the son of a Jewish father and Christian mother, struggles to understand religion and its role in his family's life during the Hanukkah and Christmas holidays.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
To be more like her best friend, eleven-year-old Justine decides to give up Judaism to become Catholic, but after her beloved, religious grandmother dies, she realizes that she needs to seek her own way of being Jewish.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Octavia puzzles over life's biggest questions when her mother seems to find the answers in a conservative Christian church, while her artist father believes the writings of Henry David Thoreau hold the key.