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ECW Press (2014), 248 pages
Description
When 16-year-old Raina Resnick is expelled from her Manhattan private school, she's sent to live with her strict aunt. Her sister, Leah, blames her for her broken engagement, and Raina is also a social pariah at her new school. However, in her tight-knit Jewish community, Raina finds she is good at one thing: matchmaking! As she continues to act as a cross between Jane Austen's Emma, Dear Abby and Yenta - the matchmaker from Fiddler on the Roof - Raina's double life soon has her falling asleep in class.
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Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature (Youth Literature — 2015)
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LibraryThing member annhepburn
This was a fun, fluffy read with the added twist of taking place within a contemporary Jewish family. I really liked the sort of classic YA book hijinx, and that and the family relationships reminded me in a good way of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice books. A good pick especially for younger
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LibraryThing member wrightja2000
I enjoyed this sometimes sweet, sometimes funny book. I appreciate that, although it was about matchmaking, the teenage main character was not falling in love or crushing on anyone. All the romance (and there wasn't much) was between adults. Finally! A book that has a teenage main character who is
Being that Raina does most of her matchmaking by email without meeting people in person, she learns, as do the people around her, that we never know the whole story and to be careful judging otters.
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not falling in love!Being that Raina does most of her matchmaking by email without meeting people in person, she learns, as do the people around her, that we never know the whole story and to be careful judging otters.
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ISBN
1770411828 / 9781770411821