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1) It's my life
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Language
English
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Jenna's never let her cerebral palsy get her down. When she discovers that her condition was actually caused by an injury at birth, she's furious with her parents for withholding the truth. Now they're pushing her to get yet another difficult procedure. Enter Julian, Jenna's childhood crush. He's just moved back to town, and he's struggling in school, so Jenna reaches out to him-- anonymously. Soon she's falling for him all over again, hard and fast....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Crowds and attention always make Ellie nervous, and lately they've been making it harder and harder for her to breathe. The horror of her bat mitzvah has her indulging in party-sabotage--which goes well until a fight with her best friend leaves her alone on the path of destruction.
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents file for divorce, and just like that her childhood seems to be over. Among this world of confusing beginnings,...
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From stories of confronting their relationships with Judaism to rom-coms with a side of bagels and lox, It's a Whole Spiel features one story after another that says yes, we are Jewish, but we are also queer, and disabled, and creative, and political, and adventurous, and anything we want to be"--
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