When I asked for titles of kidlit/YA with Jewish characters in non-Jewish books, I got quite a few answers, listed below. A few of those answers are "too Jewish" to count IMHO, but mostly they were the kind of thing I was looking for: characters who happen to be Jewish in a story which does not revolve around Jewish themes or events. I'm especially interested in really recent books (published in the last 5 years).
Let me know if you have any other suggestions to add to the list! Thanks, all! Heidi Rabinowitz, he...@cbiboca.org JEWISH CHARACTERS IN MAINSTREAM KIDLIT/YA (not in any particular order) Death by Toilet Paper, and Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart Fleabrain Loves Franny by Joanne Rocklin The QuikPick Papers series by Tom Angleberger The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hatterner Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare Nest by Esther Ehrlich Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan My Year Zero by Rachel Gold Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Kissing in America by Margo Rabb Small Medium at Large by Joanne Levy Bigger than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder Any Which Wall by Laurel Snyder Seven Stories Up by Laurel Snyder Animorphs:The Invasion by Katherine Applegate The Inquisitor's Apprentice by Chris Moriarty Sister Mischief by Laura Goode The Whole Story of Half a Girl by Veera Hiranandani Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork The Snarkout Boys, the Avocado of Death, and other books by Daniel Pinkwater Paper Towns by John Green When Life Gives You OJ, and Aces Wild by Erica Perl Your Friend in Fashion, Abby Shapiro by Amy Axelrod Sami's Sleepaway Summer by Jenny Meyerhoff? California Dreaming by Marissa Moss Curveball by Jordan Sonenblick Orchards by Holly Thompson Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah, and Nine, Ten by Nora Raleigh Baskin The Hereville stories by Barry Deutsch Blue Thread , The Ninth Day by Ruth Tenzer Feldman Mira in the Present Tense by Sita Brahmachari Intentions by Deborah Heiligman Don't Talk to Me About the War by David Adler The Notorious Izzy Fink by Don Brown Fire! by Barbara Diamond Goldin Faraway Summer by Johanna Hurwitz Quake! by Gail Karwoski Witness, and A Time of Angels by Karen Hesse The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli The Life and Opinions of Amy Finawitz by Laura Toffler-Corrie The Mr Lemoncello's Library series by Chris Grabenstein Audacity by Melanie Crowder My Basmati Mat Mitzvah by Paula J Freedman The Annotated Hunting of the Snark by Martin Gardner The Rebecca books in the American Girl series Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Imperfect Spiral, and Underwater by Debbie Levy Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa by Micol Ostow The Five Story House by Pnina Moed Kass Nate the Great series by Marjorie Sharmat Wonder by RJ Palacio In Case You Missed It by Sarah Darer Littman (forthcoming, Oct 2016)
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