Samantha s Surprise A Christmas Story The American Girls Collection Scholastic Edition. Ages 9 12

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Marielle in Paris

By Maxine Schur

ANIMAL STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Marielle the mouse has worked her dressmaking magic for nine days and nine nights to create nine beautiful dresses for Madame Sooree's nine daughters. Finishe...

The Circlemaker

By Maxine Schur

Day of delight

By Maxine Schur

Depicts a young Ethiopian Jewish boy and his family, including their typical daily routine followed by preparation for and celebration of the Sabbath.

Day of delight

By Maxine Schur

Depicts a young Ethiopian Jewish boy and his family, including their typical daily routine followed by preparation for and celebration of the Sabbath.

Dead heat: love and money

By Paul Sann

The peddler's gift

By Maxine Schur

A young boy in turn-of-the-century rural Russia learns that appearances are often deceiving after he steals and then tries to return a dreidel to the traveling peddler Shnook.

The Peddler s Gift

By Maxine Rose Schur

Sacred shadows

By Maxine Schur

When her German hometown becomes part of Poland after World War I, Lena, a young German Jew, struggles to come to terms with the anti-Semitism and anti-German hatred that seems to be growing around...

Samantha s Surprise

By Maxine Schur