Books with author Barbara Cohen

Book by Cohen, Barbara

One day, while in search of adventure, brave bowsman Robin Hood comes face to face with a huge man who challenges him to prove who is the "better man," and finds not only a worthy opponent but a true friend known as Little John.

Book by Cohen, Barbara

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Book by Cohen, Barbara

The spirited retelling of the legendary people's hero who meets his match when he does battle with a giant of a man who proves not only to be a worthy opponent, but a courageous comrade-in-arms. Reprint.

A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an enthusiasm for the Brooklyn Dodgers and first baseman, Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by Jackie to his elderly friend's death bed.

Fifteen-year-old Dinah's insistence on dating a handsome football star causes bitter dissension in her family because the boy is not a Jew like them.

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The chance to play Queen Esther in the annual Purim celebration helps thirteen-year-old Gertie Warshefsky triumph over feelings of martyrdom and abandonment

Sally's relationship with an elderly bus driver who recites Shakespeare stories helps her to cope with the problems of her mother's cancer and being separated from her twin sister at summer camp.

A German refugee's unhappiness affords Benny Rifkind a chance to show his family that he has concerns other than baseball and the 1939 World's Fair.