Candlelight for Rebecca

Format:

Book

Title:

Candlelight for Rebecca

Author:

Greene, Jacqueline Dembar.

ISBN:

9781593695828

9781593695255

9780329723118

9781607441977

Publication Information:

Middleton, WI : American Girl Pub., 2009.

Physical Description:

85 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Series title(s):

Rebecca ;

American girls collection.

Number in series:

General Note:

Ahead of title: 1914.

Summary:

While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.

Reading Level:

Ages 8 and up.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 4.8 2.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.8 2.0 132087.

Reading Counts RC 3-5 4.7 5 Quiz: 47350.

Subject(s):

Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.

Jews -- United States -- Fiction.

Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Toleration -- Fiction.

Christmas -- Fiction.

Hanukkah -- Fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

Homing pigeons -- Fiction.

Pigeons -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

New York (State) -- New York

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Summary

Rebecca is troubled when her teacher assigns her class to make Christmas decorations. Rebecca's family is Jewish and doesn't celebrate Christmas, but her teacher says Christmas is a national holiday, for all Americans to celebrate. Yet Rebecca knows she's as American as anyone else, even without celebrating Christmas! She wants to please her teacher, but she's sure her family will be upset. Then, on the first night of Hanukkah, Rebecca finds kindness in an unexpected place, and learns the real meaning of the holiday season. Includes an illustrated historical "Looking Back" essay.