Jewish Detective Stories for Kids
Author: Dvora Waysman
Publisher: Devora Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781930143159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of five stories by Jewish authors that explore the meaning of love.
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Criminal Kabbalah
Author: Lawrence W. Raphael
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1580231098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology of 13 mystery stories touches on various aspects of Judaism, with selections from Kinky Friedman, Stuart Kaminsky and more.
The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family
Author: Sarah Kapit
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 2022-03-22
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780593112311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFans of the Penderwicks and the Vanderbeekers, meet the Finkel family in this middle grade novel about two autistic sisters, their detective agency, and life's most consequential mysteries. When twelve-year-old Lara Finkel starts her very own detective agency, FIASCCO (Finkel Investigation Agency Solving Consequential Crimes Only), she does not want her sister, Caroline, involved. She and Caroline don't have to do everything together. But Caroline won't give up, and when she brings Lara the firm's first mystery, Lara relents, and the questions start piling up. But Lara and Caroline's truce doesn't last for long. Caroline normally uses her tablet to talk, but now she's busily texting a new friend. Lara can't figure out what the two of them are up to, but it can't be good. And Caroline doesn't like Lara's snooping--she's supposed to be solving other people's crimes, not spying on Caroline! As FIASCCO and the Finkel family mysteries spin out of control, can Caroline and Lara find a way to be friends again?
Jewish Sports Stories for Kids
Author: Judy Labensohn
Publisher: Devora Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781930143661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of eight short stories featuring Jewish characters involved in a wide range of sports.
The Auschwitz Detective
Author: Jonathan Dunsky
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-28
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789657795057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi. Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz. Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam struggles to find a reason to carry on living. But when a boy is found murdered inside the camp, Adam is given the chance to be a detective again. Ordered to discover the identity of the killer, Adam must employ all his wits to solve the mystery while surviving the perils of Auschwitz. And he'd better catch the killer soon because the punishment for failure is death.
Meet the Hamantaschen
Author: Alan Silberberg
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2022-02-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0593351576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou've met the latkes, you've met the matzah...now it's time to meet the hamantaschen in this zany Purim story! There's a problem with Purim! The Purim play is about to start, but the megillah is missing! Without the scroll that recounts the Purim story, how can the show go on? Never fear: three determined hamantaschen— DETECTIVES! Right. Three determined DETECTIVES are on the case. With the help of a mysterious stranger and a few disguises, the detectives uncover the facts so the true story of Purim can be told. In this companion to Meet the Latkes and Meet the Matzah, holiday mistellings have never been so fun.
Cursed
Author: Karol Ruth Silverstein
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1632897997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Schneider Family Book Award! A debut novel for fans of The Fault in Our Stars that thoughtfully and humorously depicts teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with a recent chronic illness diagnosis. "Silverstein sheds a powerful light on disease and how managing it can bring out one’s inner warrior. A blistering coming-of-age tale that will propel readers into Ricky’s corner." -Booklist As if her parents' divorce and sister's departure for college weren't bad enough, fourteen-year-old Ricky Bloom has just been diagnosed with a life-changing chronic illness. Her days consist of cursing everyone out, skipping school--which has become a nightmare--daydreaming about her crush, Julio, and trying to keep her parents from realizing just how bad things are. But she can't keep her ruse up forever. Ricky's afraid, angry, alone, and one suspension away from repeating ninth grade when she realizes: she can't be held back. She'll do whatever it takes to move forward--even if it means changing the person she's become. Lured out of her funk by a quirky classmate, Oliver, who's been there too, Ricky's porcupine exterior begins to shed some spines. Maybe asking for help isn't the worst thing in the world. Maybe accepting circumstances doesn't mean giving up.
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Author: Harry Kemelman
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1504016041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst in the New York Times–bestselling series and winner of the Edgar Award: A new rabbi in a small New England town investigates the murder of a nanny. David Small is the new rabbi in the small Massachusetts town of Barnard’s Crossing. Although he’d rather spend his days engaged in Torah study and theological debate, the daily chores of synagogue life are all-consuming—that is, until the day a nanny’s body is found on the rain-soaked asphalt of the temple’s parking lot. When the young woman’s purse is discovered in Rabbi Small’s car, he will have to use his scholarly skills and Talmudic wisdom—and collaborate with the Irish-Catholic police chief—to exonerate himself and find the real killer. Blending this unorthodox sleuth’s quick intellect with thrilling action, Friday the Rabbi Slept Late is the exciting first installment of the beloved bestselling mystery series that offers a Jewish twist on the clerical mystery, a delightful discovery for fans of Father Brown and Father Dowling or readers of Faye Kellerman’s suspense novels set in the Orthodox community.
The Mystery of the Overturned Inkwell
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 11
ISBN-13: 9781891293306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An inkwell tips over and a beautiful drawing mysteriously appears. Could this drawing have been made by itself? A story about discovering the true Master and Creator of the world"--
Playing Detective with Family Lore
Author: Daniella Weiss Ashkenazy
Publisher: Jewishselfpublishing
Published: 2020-11-19
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9789657041161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlaying Detective with Family Lore is more than one family's saga. The far-ranging origins of the author's family and the course of the progenitors' lives and those of their descendants provide a microcosmic illustration of the macro-level triumphs and tragedies of Jewish life in Eastern Europe and America. From the tiny Radekhiv shtetl to the famous Polish market town Jaroslaw, from the Russian port city Nikolayev - inside of the Pale of Settlement during the 1905 pogroms, to Jassy - rife with unique antisemitic legislation following Romanian independence, this book unwittingly traces a collective history epitomized by one particular family's combined narratives, making it a 'must read' for the 80% of American Jews who trace their ancestry back to Eastern Europe. Playing Detective with Family Lore goes beyond Researching Your Family History Online for Dummies. Offering more than a ringside seat how to mine information online, the author, a seasoned journalist, shares her expertise with budding memoirists. She explores how the skills and the logic of a Sherlock Holmes can be employed to stitch together snippets of information in order to forge a more coherent whole that may confirm, contest, augment, or complicate oral family lore. Not your run-of-the-mill memoir, the structure is a tad unique. Sprinkled at the bottom of the pages, academic footnotes are repurposed to create a new genre: Experiential Reading. The links to historical footage, photos, and short texts make reading this work closer to a virtual museum than a traditional e-book.
