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Seven Daughters And Seven Sons

Barbara Cohen

School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Oct. 19, 1994)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A retelling of a traditional Arabic tale in which a young woman disguises herself as a man and opens up a shop in a distant city in order to help her impoverished family.

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Molly's Pilgrim

Barbara Cohen

Paperback (Yearling, Oct. 1, 1990)

Molly and her family have moved to America from Russia.Her mother says they moved to find freedom. But the children in Molly's third-grade class make fun of her accent and clothes. That doesn't seem like freedom to Molly at all.At Thanksgiving everyone has to bring a Pilgrim doll to class. The doll Molly's mother makes looks like a Russian peasant girl. It doesn't look at all like the Pilgrims Molly has seen in her schoolbook. Molly is afraid she'll never fit in with her classmates now.

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Thank you, Jackie Robinson

Barbara Cohen

Hardcover (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, Aug. 16, 1974)

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.

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Canterbury Tales By Chaucer, Geoffrey

Barbara Cohen

Hardcover (HarperCollins, Aug. 15, 1988)

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The Innkeeper's Daughter

Barbara Cohen

Paperback (Beech Tree Books, Nov. 1, 1990)

Helping her widowed mother run a small inn provides 16-year-old Rachel with many opportunities to adjust to growing up.

Even Higher

Barbara Cohen

Library Binding (Lothrop Lee & Shepard, Aug. 1, 1987)

A skeptical visitor to the village of Nemirov finds out where its rabbi really goes during the Jewish New Year, when the villagers claim he goes to heaven to speak to God.