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Nonfiction Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem George Prochnik
Children’s A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Andrea Davis Pinkney; Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, illus.
Children’s Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage Tillar Mazzeo; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell
Nonfiction Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation Dean Jobb