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Children’s The Hedgehog Who Said Who Cares? Neri Aluma; Amit Trainin, illus.; Ilana Kurshan, trans.
Children’s Harry and the Highwire: Houdini’s First Amazing Act Julie Carpenter; Laura Catalán, illus.
Children’s What Jewish Looks Like Liz Kleinrock and Caroline Kusin Pritchard; Iris Gottlieb, illus.
Cookbook Food, Hope & Resilience: Authentic Recipes and Remarkable Stories from Holocaust Survivors June Hersh