Marisabina Russo
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"It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves--but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood, and that her family members are Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, her childhood is thrown into turmoil. To make matters more complicated, her father is out of the picture, her mother is ambitious and demanding, and her older half-brothers have troubles, too. Following the author's young...
11) House of sports
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Through a series of triumphs and tragedies at home, at school, and on the basketball court, plus time reluctantly spent with his elderly grandmother, twelve-year-old Jim Malone learns that there is a lot more to life than basketball.
12) Time to wake up
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A mother has some difficulty getting her little boy out of bed in the morning.
13) Where is Ben?
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While Ben's mother makes a pie, Ben hides around the house.
14) Trade-in-mother
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Max discusses with his mother good reasons why he'd like to trade her in, but admits there is one reason to keep her.
18) Grandpa Abe
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Grandpa Abe enters Sarah's life as her grandmother's boyfriend, becomes her grandfather by marriage, and enriches her life before leaving it.
19) A visit to Oma
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When a child visits her great-grandmother who speaks to her in an unfamiliar language, she makes up a story in her own head to fit her great-grandmother's gestures.
20) Under the table
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A child who loves to hide away and play under a small table draws pictures on the bottom of the table top.