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Debra L. Winegarten

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Debra is an award-winning poet and author. She teaches sociology at a small university in Austin, Texas. By night, she writes biographies of Texas women for middle school students.

Almost a Minyan: Jewish Children’s Book Review (A Coming-of-Age Story of a 13 Year-old Hebrew Girl, Dealing with Her Grandfather’s Death)

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Almost a Minyan: Jewish Children’s Book Review (A Coming-of-Age Story of a 13 Year-old Hebrew Girl, Dealing with Her Grandfather’s Death)



My son Jack was excited to see we received a new book in the mail: Almost a Minyan, by Lori S. Kline. Granted, when I first read him the title, his eyes lit up as he looked for a picture on the cover of a “minion” from the Despicable Me movie series…



But as I read the book to him for bedtime, he was still very i

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There's Jews in Texas?

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Kathleen Hall Who or what inspired you to write biographies? Do you get to know these historical figures in ways that surprise you?


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