Search
Type
Format
Sort

Edwards, Michelle

Summary: When Sophia was a baby, Mrs. Goldman knit a tiny baby hat to keep her warm. Last year, she taught Sophia how to knit. Now Sophia wants to knit a special hat for Mrs. Goldman. And she wants to do it all by herself!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2016

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Edwards

Hoberman, Mary Ann.

Summary: Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION Hober

Lamb, Sacha

Summary: "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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y FICTION Lamb

Price, Adam O'Fallon

Summary: Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing-and the ones that follow-will brand the lives of three generations over the course of this novel. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2019

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY Price

Schine, Cathleen

Summary: Julian Künstler comes from New York City to L.A. like many a lost twenty-something: to find a job writing in the entertainment industry. But this is 2020 and his temporary visit turns into an extended stay, trapped by the lockdown in a little house in Venice with his glamorous, eccentric, and ancient grandmother. Ninety-three-years old, Mamie came to Los Angeles from Vienna at eleven with her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION Schine

Newman, Lesléa

Summary: "Brings to life a not too distant history of immigration to Ellis Island. When it's time for nine-year-old Gittel and her mother to leave their homeland behind and go to America for the promise of a new life, a health inspection stops any chance of Gittel's mother joining her daughter on the voyage. Knowing she may never see her mother again, Gittel must find the courage within herself to leave...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Newman

Reich, Tova

Summary: "Reich is the author of the novels "One Hundred Philistine Foreskins," "My Holocaust," "The Jewish War," "Master of the Return," and "Mara." Her stories have appeared in the "Atlantic," "Harper's," "AGNI," "Ploughshares," and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, the Edward Lewis Wallant Book Award, as well as other prizes."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION Reich

McBride, James

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Wolkenstein, M. Evan

Summary: Seventh-grader Will's Bar Mitzvah community service project, visiting an incurably ill older boy in the hospital, leads to a friendship that is life-changing for both them and those around them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION Wolkenstein

Luiselli, Valeria

Summary: "From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Lewis, John

Summary: This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Adult, Call number: GRNOV 741.59 Lewis

Dobbs, Michael

Summary: "The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

Copies Available at Suttons Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 Dobbs 2019

Back to Top