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As news of German victories and Nazi atrocities against the Jews comes over the radio, Molly faces important decisions as she and her Brooklyn friends prepare to enter junior high school. ... Read more

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“Molly is an honest girl, but when she finds a gold ring on the street, she puts it on her finger and makes no attempt to find the owner. Gradually, however, guilt begins to overwhelm her, for she realizes that the ring belongs to Hanna Gittel, a young Jewish refugee child. The descriptions of cozy family life with simple recreations and holiday parties are refreshing to read in our more sophisticated and complicated times.”

— The Horn Book ... Read more

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“Molly is hurt and angry when her best friend Tsippi seems to avoid her in favor of playing with Big Naomi. To get back at Tsippi, Molly lets it be known that Tsippi’s parents are Communists, a fact that both embarrasses Tsippi and causes schoolmates to call her parents spies. There is lots of warmth here and plenty of color in Chaikin’s evocation of an early 1940’s Brooklyn neighborhood.”

— ALA Booklist ... Read more

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The Dreaming Tree is a young adult novel about a boy living in boarding shcool; a boy bullied by others in the school and who is very lonely and misunderstood. While trying to cope with his various problems, he finds solace in the woods and becomes expecially enraptured by a giant old oak, in the hollows of which live a variety of cratures. The boy often climbs to the sturdy uppermost branches where he sits and observes nature around him. On those high branches he also pretends he is many different things and dreams his dreams of what he may one day become. ... Read more