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 ...
I Should Worry I Should Care is the first in a series of five novels for young readers that won critical acclaim and awards for Miriam Chaikin. All five books are about Molly and her family and friends in a Brooklyn neighborhood around the time of Wo...
Sturdy and sensible Molly has been 103/4 for a million years' and it's a long, hot, boring and lonely summer while her best friend is away. But when another girl's bracelet is finagled away from her by tough, nasty Celia, Molly's summer becomes a min...
A young girl’s account of life in Jerusalem in 165 B.C.
When the hated Syrian-Greek king fills ancient Jerusalem with statues of Greek gods and destroys the Jewish temple, feisty Alexandra takes up reed pen, ink, and sheet of papyrus and tur...