Weissman, Elissa Brent

From their homes in New York and New Zealand, cousins Noah and Nora have a competition to decide who can have the world's best Hanukkah, winter or summer, but as the eight nights of Hanukkah go on, they realize they have more in common than they thought.

Sixth-graders Ashley and her best friend Maya were banished from the live "News at Nine" broadcast at John Dos Passos Elementary in Baltimore after an embarrassing incident in the previous year; at loose ends the pair, together with their classmate Brielle, decide to become investigative reporters with their own online broadcast: "The Underground News"--and soon they stumble upon a major story about an educational software company that is illegally tracking and selling student data.

Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.

At the end of fifth grade, Fara decides to wear mismatched socks as a statement of individuality, but once middle school starts and she wants to be known for her ideas rather than her clothing, she feels burdened by an image that she no longer wants.

Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.

Here is a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today's foremost children's authors and illustrators---revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.

After a wildfire destroys his sleepaway camp, Gabe's cool stepbrother Zack and the campers that would have gone there instead join Gabe and his nerd friends at Nerd Camp--a war between the cool jocks and the intelligent nerds is about to begin.

For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zack, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it is a camp for "nerds.".

Gabe has been looking forward all year to returning to the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment, aka Nerd Camp, while his cool stepbrother Zack attends a nearby sleepaway camp. But a wildfire forces the two camps to share the same space, and suddenly Nerd Camp becomes a geek's nightmare when these two very different worlds collide.