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Author Chayil, Eishes.

Title Hush / Eishes Chayil.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Walker, 2010.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1471195~S1
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 95th Street Teen Fiction  TEEN CHAYIL    AVAILABLE
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Description 359 pages ; 22 cm
Summary After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent.
Subject Sex crimes -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Orthodox Judaism -- Fiction.
Judaism -- Customs and practices -- Fiction.
Suicide -- Fiction.
Borough Park (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre Young adult fiction.
ISBN 9780802720887 (hardcover)
0802720889 (hardcover)
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SRP 2011
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October 17 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: This amazing novel made me cry at the end. I never cry when reading . The story is bittersweet and it shows you the restraints of a conservative jewish community while also showing traces of it's beauty.
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SRP 2011
SRP 2011 X
October 14 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: An eye-opening view into the Hassidic Jewish community. If you like Potok books, you will enjoy this read.
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