Richard Michelson
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Once there was a boy named Leonard who loved to sing and to act. His parents were immigrants who felt like aliens in America, and certainly didn't understand Leonard's drive to perform. "Learn to play the accordion," his father told him. "Actors starve, but at least musicians can eke out a living." But Leonard reached for the stars . . . and caught them. He moved to Hollywood, where he took acting lessons, and drove a taxi and took every role he could...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating what makes a person unique, this true story of Sarah Brenner, a poor Jewish girl from New York City's impoverished Lower East Side, shows how she became Sydney Taylor; an actress, dancer, and successful children's book author who never forgot the importance of fighting unfairness.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1885, few Jews in Israel used the holy language of their ancestors, and Hebrew was in danger of being lost--until Ben Zion and his father got involved. Through the help of his father and a community of children, Ben modernized the ancient language, creating a lexicon of new, modern words to bring Hebrew back into common usage ... [This book offers] a linguistic journey about how language develops and how one person's perseverance can make a real...
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