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1953. Simon Putnam, newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, gets his first assignment: editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. It is a potboiler intended to shore up the firm's failing finances. Simon's mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg's; his parents mourn Ethel's death. Simon meets The Vixen author, reckless,...
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2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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53 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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In this spin on A Christmas carol, Old Scroogemacher is a tyrant to the poor workers in his waistcoat factory, even on the last night of Hanukkah. Visited by three rabbis, Scroogemacher travels from the time of the Maccabees to present day.
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2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Early in the twentieth century, Nathan embarks on a voyage from Russia to New York City hoping to become an opera singer, and works hard while missing his home and family. Includes note about the author's grandfather, who inspired the story, and his children.
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©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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188 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 20 cm.
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Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
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