When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat. Reprint.

Escape from Egypt

Children's Books

Levitin, Sonia

Literature & Fiction

Puffin

Having once had his heart broken, Jack keeps it in a bucket safe from harm until one day a young maiden asks him to solve a riddle which teaches him the true meaning of love

The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket (Picture Puffins)

Room in the Heart

Told from various perspectives, a powerful novel revisits the Nazi occupation of Copenhagen as Julie, along with her family, places her faith in Niels, a member of the Danish resistance who has learned of a Nazi plot to imprison all of Copenhagen's Jews and vows to save them. Reprint.

Room In the Heart

Speak

Deviant. Rebellious. Abnormal. The Elders say Gemm 16884 is all these things, and that he is a threat to the utopian society in which he lives. The Elders give him one chance to save himself: He must undergo the mysterious and painful “cure,” or he and his twin sister, Gemma, will be automatically recycled. Gemm chooses “the cure” and finds himself in the year 1348, at the onset of the Black Death. He is now Johannes, sixteen, living in Strasbourg--a town beset by anti-Semitism. Johannes struggles to hold on to his faith and family, his love for Margarite, his passion for music, and his belief in the goodness of human beings. But can the will of one boy change the world? Award-winning author Sonia Levitin weaves a chilling tale of a futuristic society colliding with the past--and delivers an unforgettable message about the recurring nature of history.

The Cure

Silver Whistle

An old woman is taunted by the lighthouse keeper for feeding the abandoned cats that live near the lighthouse, but when she falls ill, he has a change of heart.

All the Cats in the World

Harcourt Childrens Books

Slavery still exists in some parts of the world, even in the year 2000. In Sudan, tens of thousands of men, women, and children of the Dinka and Nuba tribes are regularly captured, taken from their homes and families, and forced into hard labor. Based on a true story and real-life contemporary events, this novel tells how a group of students in Denver, Colorado, learns of the atrocities in Sudan, and how they begin to make a difference--raising money to "redeem" slaves and educating others about this dire situation. Award-winning author Sonia Levitin juxtaposes the safe and secure world of an American classroom with the severe hardship of the Dinka people, making Dream Freedom a book that will raise consciousness around the world.

Dream Freedom

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

The annual lolliberry festival in Little Digby is marred because everybody sneaks a little taste of the pie they are all to share, thinking there will be plenty left for the celebration.

Nobody stole the pie (A Voyager/HJB book)

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

A fictionalized account of the 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson expedition which included seventeen-year-old Nancy Kelsey, the first American woman to journey from Missouri to California.

The No-Return Trail

Harcourt