Books by Yona Zeldis McDonough
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review 1: This story takes place in the course of a single day-the wedding day of Anjelica and Ohed. The whole family has come, including grandma, the exes, and so on. While reading it I felt as if I had just gotten off the Long Island Railroad and was meeting the family for the first time...
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review 1: A very sweet historical book that would be good for lower-grade girls looking for an enjoyable, easier level read with illustrations. Loosely based on the early life of world-famous dollmaker Madame Alexander, this is the story of Anna, a girl who lives with her immigrant parents...
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review 1: Yona Zeldis McDonough has the elegance and wit of a 21st century Austen as she navigates the romance of two opposites. Each shaken by the loss of a spouse, each raising a difficult teen, her two protagonists live complicated, harried lives -- made all the more so by their meeting...
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review 1: Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott b Yona Zeldis McDonough wasn't very good. I know that a lot of people really liked it but I wasn't a fan. First of all I don't like biographies very much. But I have read some that are now my favortie books. I was expecting a little more f...
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review 1: Everyone knows who RosaParks is because most people learn about her in elementary school, well how do the kids of today's generation learn? The same way as everyone else, through books! Who Was Rosa Parks by Yona Zeldis McDonough is kid-friendly book that teaches kids who exactly...
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review 1: I really wanted to like this book, and the characters within it, but I just couldn't find it in myself. I wanted to like the magic of an ATM dispensing free money, but I found the actions of the recipient so irritating as the novel continued that I wasn't able to simply sink into...
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review 1: This enjoyable book is separate from Laura Ingalls Wilder's books about growing up in a pioneer family, but has that same feeling of intimacy, right down to the pencil illustrations. Very nice biography of a much-loved American author for elementary readers. Many incidents will b...
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review 1: This is an adorable children's book! A perfect read-aloud or gift for any little girly girl in your life. (From age 5-10ish) The family in the book is Jewish (the author uses Hebrew words in the dialogue and talks about celebrating Passover, Chanukah, going to shul...etc. but not...
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review 1: With a sure hand and her customary gift for telling detail, Yona Zeldis McDonough weaves an extraordinary story of treasures lost and found. And what a perfect title! Fate, in the form of an abandoned infant, confronts our heroine at her loneliest hour. What unfolds after this ma...