May is Jewish American Heritage Month. Check out the winners of this year’s Sydney Taylor Book Awards, which are presented annually by the Association of Jewish Libraries to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.
Madame Alexander : the creator of the iconic American doll
2023 Sydney Taylor Notable Picture Book
Vividly brings to life the inspiring story of feminist entrepreneur Beatrice Alexander, who grew up fixing and making dolls, then founded the Madame Alexander doll company after WWII, creating some of the first plastic and collectible dolls that never break.
Shoham's bangle
2023 Sydney Taylor Notable Picture Book
Raquela's seder
2023 Sydney Taylor Notable Picture Book
Big dreams, small fish
2023 Sydney Taylor Honor for Picture Books
When the opportunity arises, Shirley, the daughter of immigrants who live above their corner grocery store, turns some overlooked gefilte fish into a marketing strategy that changes the flavor of the neighborhood
The Very Best Sukkah : A Story from Uganda
2023 Sydney Taylor Honor for Picture Books
Sitting shiva
2023 Sydney Taylor Honor for Picture Books
The tower of life : how Yaffa Eliach rebuilt her town in stories and photographs
2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Picture Books
Alias Anna : Zhanna Arshanskaya: a biography in verse : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
2023 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Middle Grade
This thrilling nonfiction novel in verse brings to life the true story of a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna whose extraordinary piano-playing skills allowed her and her sister to outwit the Nazis and hide in plain sight.
The woman who split the atom : Lise Meitner
2023 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Middle Grade
Honey and me
2023 Sydney Taylor Honor for Middle Grade
When eleven-year-old Milla's best friend Honey joins her school for sixth grade Milla finds herself in her friend's shadow, but as the year progresses through the Jewish holidays Milla tries to cope with the tensions and the dramas of school--including the death of a beloved teacher.
Black bird, blue road
2023 Sydney Taylor Honor for Middle Grade
To save her sick twin brother from the Angel of Death by taking him to find doctors who can cure him, Ziva accidentally frees a half-demon boy instead, who leads them to a fabled city where no one dies.
Ellen outside the lines
2023 Sydney Taylor Honor for Middle Grade
When a school trip to Barcelona to reconnect with her best friend doesn’t go as planned, Ellen, a neurodivergent 13-year-old, must expand her horizons as she makes new friends and learns to let go of old ones.
Aviva vs. the Dybbuk
2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Middle Grade
Ethel's song : Ethel Rosenberg's life in poems
2023 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Young Adults
In 1953, Ethel Rosenberg, a devoted wife and loving mother, faces the electric chair. People say she's a spy, a Communist, a traitor, a red. How did she get here? In a series of heart-wrenching poems, Ethel tells her story. The child of Jewish immigrants, Ethel Greenglass grows up on New York City's Lower East Side. She dreams of being an actress and a singer but finds romance and excitement in the arms of the charming Julius Rosenberg. Both are ardent supporters of rights for workers, but are they spies? Who is passing atomic secrets to the Soviets? Why does everyone seem out to get them?
The ghosts of Rose Hill
2023 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Young Adults
My fine fellow
2023 Sydney Taylor Honor for Young Adults
Some Kind of Hate
2023 Sydney Taylor Honor for Young Adults
Eight nights of flirting
2023 Sydney Taylor Honor for Young Adults
When the angels left the old country
2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Young Adults