As a teenage Jewish girl struggles with anorexia, her decisions about whether or not to live affect those close to her and are influenced by survivors of the Holocaust.
Set in Oswego, New York where America's only WW II refugee accommodates Jews fleeing Europe, a 15-year-old Yugoslav Jew begins a romance with a local girl.
In an attempt to win the affection of a gorgeous senior girl, and to help his older sister launch her career in journalism, fifteen-year-old David Rosen, a socially awkward loner, pretends to be a female advice columnist for his school newspaper.
When the Israeli grandmother she never knew about gets sick, sixteen-year-old Amy Nelson's biological father overturns her summer plans and drags her off to Israel.
The characters in this story are followed up to and beyond the moment of a bus bombing in Israel. The inner lives of kibbutzniks, tourists, soldiers, and even the Palestinian teen who carries the bomb, reveal how political situations are composed of many overlapping personal situations.
Seventeen-year-old Mitch decides not to return home to southern
California from his summer trip to Israel, but to live and study at a
yeshiva in Jerusalem instead of starting his first year at UCLA.
Netta and her family have relocated temporarily from Israel to Los Angeles, and when her seventeen-year-old brother mysteriously disappears, she becomes convinced that he has been abducted by Palestinian terrorists.
Sixteen-year-old Hilary, a neo-Nazi, lies wounded in a Jewish hospital. When she slips into a coma, she begins to relive the harrowing memories of Chana, a Jewish girl whose family was brutalized in the wartime ghettos and Nazi German camps in occupied Poland.
When 14-year-old Liyanne Abhoud and her family move from St. Louis to a new home in the Palestinian village where her father was born, they must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
A relationship that starts in the rivalry of a baseball game grows to
strong friendship between two orthodox boys as one of the boys becomes
involved in the other's conflict with his austere Hasidic rabbi father.
Simone Turner meets Rivka, her biological mother, and learns that Rivka is a Hasidic Jew who became pregnant at sixteen, was shunned by her family, became a photographer, and now suffers from terminal cancer.
Headstrong Hava, a 17-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl, leaves her home
in New York to be a token Jew on a TV show about a Jewish family that's
being filmed in California.
Fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is Jewish and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people’s reactions. Sequel: Behind You
Personal papers and accounts from Hannah's mother are combined with
historical backgound in a biography that follows Senesh from her Hungarian
childhood and life in Palestine to her death at the hands of the Nazis.
Sex and baseball are the primary concerns of 15-year-old Eugene in
this autobiographical play about a lower-middle class family coping during
the depression.
