Association
of Jewish Libraries of Southern California
Hot
Topics in
Teen Literature
by Linda Silver
The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas by John Boyne, Habibi by Naomi Shihab
Nye, Light Years by Tammar
Stein, Marika by Andrea Cheng, Never Mind the Goldbergs
by Matthue Roth, Real Time by Pnina
Moed Kass, Sam I Am by Ilene
Cooper, Storky: How I Lost My
Nickname and Won the Girl by D. L. Garfinkle, The Summer of My German
Soldier by Bette Greene, Three Wishes: Palestinian and
Israeli Children Speak by Deborah
Ellis.
These and other books were discussed in Linda Silver's session
entitled "Controversial
Jewish Books for Teens" at the Conference on Jewish Children's Literature - February
2007,
Los Angeles, California.