Avram's gift

by Margie Blumberg

Other authorsLaurie McGaw (Illustrator)
Paper Book, 2003

Call number

J 239 Blumberg Copy 1

Tags

child, high holy days, rosh hashanah

Subjects

Publication

Bethesda, Md. : MB Pub., c2003.

Description

Mark is afraid of the photograph of his great-great grandfather Avram from Russia. Who was Avram, and was he really as stern as he looks in that photograph? One special Rosh Hashanah, Mark learns the answers to these questions from his Grandpa Morris and discovers Avram's gift.

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LibraryThing member thornton37814
Mark does not want the photo of his great-grandfather Avram of Russia hanging outside his room. His grandfather tells Mark the story of Avram and his father's immigration from Russia to the United States. A special shofar's horn is part of the family's heritage that plays an important part in this
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 story. It is nice to see the change that his grandfather's story brought about in Mark's way of thinking.
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Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)

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Status

Available

Call number

J 239 Blumberg Copy 1

ISBN

0962416622 / 9780962416620

Barcode

30402092931882

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