Israel Fiction for Kids
Discover the best Israel fiction books for kids! Explore engaging and educational stories that bring Israeli culture, history, and adventures to life for young readers.
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Sammy Spider's First Israel
by Sylvia A. Rouss
Sammy Spider joins the Shapiro family on a vacation, and he uses his five senses to experience Israel.
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Joshua's Dream
by Sheila F. Segal
Joshua's dream of taking part in the transformation of Israel's desert land finally comes true.
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Chicken Man
by Michelle Edwards
Each time Chicken Man is moved into a new job on the kibbutz, someone else wants to take that job instead, and the chickens suffer โฆ
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Come, Let Us be Joyful!
by Fran Manushkin
"It is a fine thing to be joyful. And is anything more joyful than coming home after a long journey? I'm going to tell you โฆ
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ืืื ืชื ืืืืืื
by Shira Sheri
On a family outing to an Israeli beach, Jonathan is afraid of the ocean waves until he learns about God.
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Snow in Jerusalem
by Deborah Da Costa
Although they live in different quarters of Jerusalem, a Jewish boy and a Muslim boy are surprised to discover that they have been caring for โฆ
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Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride
by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Observing Rosh Hashanah--the Jewish New Year--Engineer Ari apologizes for his boastful ways as the drives the very first train from Jaffa to Jerusalem in 1892.
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The Two Brothers
After observing a miracle that marks the love and concern that two brothers have for each other, King Solomon decides on the site for his โฆ
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Harvest of Light
by Allison Ofanansky
An Israeli family raises olives and uses some of the oil to light their Hanukkah menorah.
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Jodie's Hanukkah Dig
by Anna Levine
Jodie dreams of one day becoming a famous archaeologist and when her father takes her to visit a dig in Modiin, Israel, home of the โฆ
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Jerusalem Sky
by Mark H. Podwal
Poetic text and color illustrations celebrate the city of Jerusalem, its history, and its diverse people.
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The Never-ending Greenness
by Neil Waldman
When his family comes to live in Israel after the end of World War II, a young boy begins planting and caring for trees, a โฆ
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Samir and Yonatan
by Daniella Carmi
Samir, is sent to an Israeli hospital where he makes friends with an Israeli boy, who travels with him to Mars, and finds peace about โฆ
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Running on Eggs
by Anna Levine
When Karen and Yasmine become friends as well as members of a mixed Arab and Jewish track team in Israel, relatives and friends of both โฆ
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Duel
by David Grossman
David is a twelve-year-old boy living in Jerusalem in 1966. His best friend just happens to be seventy-year-old Heinrich Rosenthal, who lives at the Beit โฆ
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Daughters of the Ark
by Anna Morgan
Through the eyes of two young women linked together by a gemstone, tells a story about the emigration of Jews from Israel to Ethiopia in โฆ
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The Storyteller's Beads
by Jane Kurtz
Running for their lives to escape the political upheaval in Ethiopia, two young girls, Rahel and Sahay, must overcome their fear and prejudice and turn โฆ
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One More River
by Lynne Reid Banks
Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then โฆ
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Broken Bridge
by Lynne Reid Banks
The murder of fourteen-year-old Glen Shelby, soon after his arrival in Israel to visit his father's family, has a dramatic effect on the lives of โฆ
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Return
by Sonia Levitin
Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle and set โฆ
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Masada
by Gloria D. Miklowitz
In the year 72 C.E., after a four-year war between Rome and Judea, only one fortress remains to be taken: Masada, high above the Dead โฆ
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Tali's Jerusalem Scrapbook
by Sylvia A. Rouss
Tali is disappointed when her relatives from the U.S. cancel their trip to Jerusalem because of the security situation.
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The Dog of Knots
by Kathy Walden Kaplan
In1973 Israel at the onset of Yom Kipper War, a nine year old girl struggles about her future, service to the army, but find comfort โฆ
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Sara's Journey
by David L. Shapiro
Sara, a Jewish 12-year-old in 1919 Russia, has spunk, independence, and a deep commitment to her heritage. Suddenly orphaned under mysterious circumstances, her home and โฆ
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Soumchi
by Amos Oz
Soumchi is eleven years old, and growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem, just after World War II. His universe is enriched immeasurably when he is given โฆ
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Lydia, Queen of Palestine
by Uri Orlev
Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war, and โฆ
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The Lady with the Hat
by Uri Orlev
In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to โฆ
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And Shira Imagined
by Giora Carmi
A young girl visits Israel and envisions the history of the sites she sees.
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The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Hagit Allon
"What Daniel really wants is to be a detective, but so far he hasn't been having much luck. That is, not until he is assigned โฆ
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The Key to My Heart
by Nira Harel
Jonathan joins his dad in retracing his steps after his father misplaces his key chain which holds a very special picture of Jonathan.
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One City, Two Brothers
by Chris Smith
To settle an inheritance dispute between two brothers, King Solomon tells a tale of how Jerusalem came to be founded.
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Seymour, the Formerly Fearful
by Eve B Feldman
Originally published: New York: Four Winds Press, 1990.