I Should Worry I Should Care, the first in a series of five novels for young readers, won critical acclaim and awards for Miriam Chaikin. All five books are about Molly and her family and friends in a Brooklyn neighborhood around the time of World War II. Molly and her friends play out their young girl interests against the background of those troubled times. The ALA Booklist said, "There is lots of warmth here and plenty of color in Chaikin's evocation of an early l940s Brooklyn neighborhood."

After recovering from typhus, 13-year-old Raisa leaves her 1910 Polish shtetl to join her older sister in New York City and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory where, in 1911, one of city's worst tragedies unfolds, forever changing Raisa's life.

One of the most complex periods in American history is illuminated by the love stories of three couples and their fights for freedom from slavery.

Have to hurry, can't be lateCatching something, something great.What's Granny running so fast to catch? Join Ruthie and her friend to find out in this fast-paced read-a-loud which had a splendid start in hardcover. Now our favorite high-speed grandmother takes off in paperback.

The mirror provided in this book can be used to complete, rearrange, or change the character of the illustrations.

A complex masterpiece that reveals the mind of a contemporary woman beyond the confines of family, love, and duty to one's self. Lexie, a married woman with four children, undergoes a midlife crisis and questions her role as wife, mother, and lover. From within a Victorian house in the Hudson River Valley, Lexie dissects her life experiences in hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of her unhappiness. Through rich symbolism, lively dialogue, and acute commentary, Hortense Calisher conjures a cohesive map of Lexie's personal awakening.

How she died

In the 16th century, there was great interest in the kind of magic that is in fact science. But the scientists were ahead of their time. There was no machinery. Da Vinci had already drawn plans for a submarine and an airplane, but it was impossible to have them built. Legends began to grow. Soon it was told, as absolute truth, that a living being had been created out of clay. Was there reason to believe this? Who can say? But one of the most enduring of all these legends was the story that a great rabbi, by the power of his mystic wisdom, had been permitted by God to create a manlike being in order to save the Jews from destruction. This was the Golem. Now Sulamith Ish-Kishor has written an exciting novel, based on this legend, told through the eyes of an orphan boy, Gideon ben Israyel. By a strange series of events, the High Rabbi of the city of Prague entrusts him with an awesome task. Brave, strong, and loyal, Cideon wants to do right. But he makes one fateful mistake.

The Troll Music

Private eye Sid Kasdan digs into in a case involving the importation of young male Haitians being brought to the US as "companions" for rich older men. The novel expertly captures the zeitgeist of the 1970's.

Milano, Bompiani, 1972, 16mo brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 188.

Book by Delbanco, Nicholas