ON ALL OTHER NIGHTS

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On All Other Nights is a joyful middle-grade anthology centered around Passover—from an exciting array of bestselling and award-winning Jewish creators!

Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder—a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs—where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt.

And yet this story is about more than the ancient past. The seder’s themes of freedom, joy, tradition, and more, are timeless and universal, for all.

In this unprecedented collection of short stories, 14 bestselling and award-winning authors each reimagine a different step of the seder for today’s young readers. Through historical and contemporary fiction, verse and prose, fiction and nonfiction, these gifted writers from different Jewish traditions and backgrounds gather around the seder table and invite everyone to join them.

The full list of On All Other Nights contributors includes: Chris Baron; Ruth Behar; Adam Gidwitz; Veera Hiranandani; Amy Ignatow; Sarah Kapit; Joshua S. Levy; Mari Lowe; Naomi Milliner; Soifya Pasternack; R.M. Romero; A. J. Sass; Laura Shovan; and Laurel Snyder.

  • "Unusual, entertaining, and deeply moving."

    — Kirkus

  • "A strong candidate for strengthening and diversifying school and public library's holiday collections."

    — School Library Journal

  • "A festive reflection of Judaism's limitless range."

    — Booklist

  • "Rich with numer­ous Jew­ish per­spec­tives, On All Oth­er Nights is a wel­come addi­tion to the kid-lit genre. The orga­ni­za­tion of the sto­ries and the struc­ture of the book work well, and the ques­tions that pre­cede each sto­ry draw us in, encour­ag­ing us to think about our own rela­tion­ship to the holiday."

    — Jewish Book Council

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.