Yiddish Saves the Day
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"Hec-tor Borlasca's vibrant-ly col-or-ful pic-tures are an appeal-ing vehi-cle for Levy's mes-sage." - Jewish Book Council
Oy Vey! Such bad mazel you are having. You tripped, banged your shnoz and fell on your tuchus. Then, oy vey is mir, you lost your vocab notebook the day before the big test! But don't worry, don't kvetch, your whole mishpachais here to help you, and they have plenty of unique, Yiddish words that'll help you ace that test like a MAVEN!
So quietly sit like the MENTSH that you are,
You're a YIDDISHKEIT MAVEN--
Collect your gold star!
Debbie Levy
Debbie Levy is the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of many books for young people, including the I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark; This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality (with Jo Ann Allen Boyce); The Year of Goodbyes: A True Story of Friendship, Family, and Farewells; A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, The Original Fight Over Science in Schools; The Friendship Train: A True Story of Helping and Healing after World War II; and Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice. Her books have received many honors and awards, including the Sydney Taylor Book Award, National Jewish Book Award, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, and the Orbis Pictus Honor. Before writing books for young people, Debbie was a newspaper editor, and before that, she was a lawyer.
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