Leanne Lieberman
1) Off pointe
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
When Meg's summer ballet program is canceled and her teacher encourages her to enroll in Camp Dance, she must learn to try a different form of dance and get along with other dancers.
2) Gravity
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties.
Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she falls in love with another girl at her grandmother's cottage. Aware that homosexuality clashes with Jewish observance, Ellie feels forced to either alter her sexuality or leave her community. Meanwhile, Ellie's mother, Chana, becomes convinced she has a messianic role to play,
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Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"When Mia, a Jewish teenager from Toronto, goes to Jerusalem to spend the summer studying at a yeshiva, or seminary, she expects to connect with the land and deepen her understanding of Judaism. Instead she gets a crash course in both the politics of the Middle East and the intricacies of the human heart, and discovers a whole new way of looking at the world."--P. [4] of cover.