Category: fiction

Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail
by Lesléa Newman (Author) and Susan Gal (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Inside, a boy and his family sit around the dinner table to embrace the many traditions of their Passover Seder around the dinner table. Outside, a cat wanders, hungry and alone. When it’s time for the symbolic Passover custom of opening the family’s front door for the prophet Elijah, both the boy and the cat are in for a remarkable surprise.

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Inside, there was light.
Outside, there was darkness.

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Kaia and the Bees
by Maribeth Boelts (Author) and Angela Dominguez (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Kaia is the brave type. Like hottest-hot-pepper brave. But there is one thing that scares her: BEES! And right now, thousands of bees live on her roof because Kaia’s dad is a beekeeper. Her dad says that the world needs bees and that’s why they are beekeepers. But only he goes on the roof, not Kaia — unless she can find a way to be the brave girl she always says she is.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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