Books by Jacqueline Dembar Greene
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review 1: In this particular American Girl book. It's Christams in New York City and it's the year 1914. Rebecca is asked by her teacher to make Christmas decorations but Rebecca's family is Jewish and doesn't celebrate Christmas. Although her teacher tells her it's a national holiday for ...
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review 1: Rebecca Rubin is a nine year old girl living in 1914 New York City. Her family are Russian Jewish immigrants. She lives with her father and mother, older twin sisters Sadie and Sophie, Older brother Victor, younger brother Benny, Grandmother Bubbie and Grandfather. Rebecca's, mot...
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review 1: Rebecca is turning ten years old, but her birthday falls during Passover, an important Jewish holiday so Rebecca doesn't think she'll be getting a big party, so when her family surprises her, Rebecca is thrilled, but the best gift of all is that her Uncle Max is taking her to the...
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review 1: This review is from the point of view of a mother. I'm reading the Rebecca series to decide when they will be appropriate for my daughter.Like the first book, this book suffers a bit from having too many plot points racing along, but since this seems to be a theme of the series, ...
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review 1: This review is from teh perspective of a mother. I am reading the Rebecca series to evaluate when they will be appropriate to share with my daughter.Here's another one that requires suspension of disbelief, but I'm sure it provides enough adventure for the target audience!The ope...
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review 1: Rebecca's 10th birthday falls around the same time as Passover. She worries that with all of the holiday preparations underway that her family will forget her big day. They not only remember, but they surprise her with the best birthday yet complete with beautiful gifts and a cak...
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review 1: As the patriotic season of singing in an assembly, Rebecca`s class comes first. She has her cousin Ana with her, and Ana still speaks broken English, and still mostly Yiddish. But when she sings with Rebecca, she has a big surprise, Ana doesn`t want to sing, she just waves her fl...
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review 1: I'm not sure whether my younger, more demo-age self would have figured out pretty much the entire book as early as I did, or if I'd have enjoyed it more then. As it was, I figured out the mystery before the mystery even happened. As soon as they mentioned Rose couldn't go to cam...
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review 1: I thought it was good and pretty funny.There is a girl named Rebecca Rubin who is the main character and she goes to a camp called Camp Nokomis.There she has an interesting bunkmate named Christina, but the girls call her Tina for short.There is a girl who they call Corky and who...