Candlelight for Rebecca / by Jacqueline Dembar Greene ; illustrations, Robert Hunt ; vignettes, Susan McAliley.
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TextSeries: American girls collectionPublication details: Middleton, WI : American Girl Pub., 2009.Description: 85 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cmISBN: - 159369525X (hardcover)
- 1593695829 (pbk.)
- 9781593695255 (hardcover)
- 9781593695828 (pbk.)
- Christmas stories
- Hanukkah stories
- Homing pigeons -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Pigeons -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Toleration -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fction
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Fiction Favorites | American Greene | American Girl; RE 3 | Available | 33111005804899 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Fiction Favorites | American Greene | American Girl | Available | 33111005665076 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Rebecca is troubled when her teacher assigns her class to make Christmas decorations. Rebecca's family is Jewish and doesn't celebrate Christmas, but her teacher says Christmas is a national holiday, for all Americans to celebrate. Yet Rebecca knows she's as American as anyone else, even without celebrating Christmas! She wants to please her teacher, but she's sure her family will be upset. Then, on the first night of Hanukkah, Rebecca finds kindness in an unexpected place, and learns the real meaning of the holiday season. Includes an illustrated historical "Looking Back" essay.
At head of title: 1914.
While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
Ages 8 and up.