AOAKF Holiday Bundle

12.14.14

Between now and Wed, if you order three of our All-of-a-Kind Family titles, you’ll get the fourth one for FREE! Plus, FREE shipping! Go here to order!

All of-a-Kind-Family at the Tenement Museum

11.06.14

On November 5th, the Tenement Museum in New York City hosted an event to celebrate the release of the entire All of-a-Kind Family series. Joining Lizzie Skurnick was Sydney Taylor biographer June Cummins, historian Hasia Diner, and journalists Rebecca Traister and Anna Holmes. Through the magic of technology, you can watch the entire event here .

Isabel’s War Gets a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly

09.28.14

“Published posthumously, Perl’s moving WWII novel set in the Bronx traces a Jewish girl’s growing awareness of the atrocities occurring overseas. At first, 12-year-old Isabel views the war as an inconvenience, bemoaning new rationing rules and the growing shortages of luxury items. Similarly, she resents the arrival of Helga, a beautiful German refugee with “a swanlike neck, and luminous gray-green Read more…