2023 Mock Sydney Taylor Book Awards: Candidate Reviews

PICTURE BOOKS

1. A Persian Passover by Etan Basseri
   review by Bridget Hodder
   
2. Tía Fortuna's New Home by Ruth Behar
   review by Shirley Reva Vernick
   
3. Big Dreams, Small Fish by Paula Cohen
   review by Sarah Aronson
   
4. The Greatest Song of All by Megan Hoyt
   review by Shanna Silva
   
5. Alone Together on Dan Street by Erica Cohen Lyons
   review by Arlene Schenker
   
6. A Synagogue Just Like Home by Alice McGinty
   review by Cynthia Levinson
   
7. The Very Best Sukkah by Shoshana Nambi
   review by Suzanne Grossman
   
8. I Hate Borsch! by Yevgenia Nayberg
   review by Mirele Kessous
   
9. The Tower of Life by Chana Stiefel
   review by Jeannette Brod
   
10. Shoshi's Shabbat by Caryn Yacowitz
    review by Jacqueline Jules

MIDDLE GRADE BOOKS

1. The Lost Ryū by Emi Watanabe Cohen
   review by Heidi Rabinowitz
   
2. Honey and Me by Meira Drazin
   review by Jacqueline Jules
   
3. Where You've Got To Be by Caroline Gertler
   review by Stacy Nockowitz
   
4. The Book of Elsie by Joanne Levy
   review by Rachel J. Fremmer
   
5. Wayward Creatures by Dayna Lorentz
   review by Shirley Reva Vernick
   
6. Aviva vs the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe
   review by Leah Cypess
   
7. Chunky Goes to Camp by Yehudi Mercado
   review by Rebecca Klempner
   
8. The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor by Amanda Panitch
   review by Beth L. Gallego
   
9. Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack
   review by Judy Greenblatt
   
10. Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass
    review by Stacy Nockowitz
    

 

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

1. The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum
   review by Sarah Blattner
   
2. When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
   review by Beth L. Gallego
   
3. Some Kind of Hate by Sarah Darer Littman
   review by Heather J. Matthews
   
4. This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
   review by Sarah Blattner
   
5. Ballad & Dagger by Daniel José Older
   review by Aleah Gornbein
   
6. From Dust, A Flame by Rebecca Podos
   review by Sarah Blattner
   
7. Eight Nights of Flirting by Hannah Reynolds
   review by Evonne Marzouk
   
8. The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero
   review by Evonne Marzouk
   
9. See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
   review by Ronda Einbinder
   
10. Boys of the Beast by Monida Zepeda
    review by Heidi Rabinowitz