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Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML: With the help of her Catholic friend, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl creates a provocative local tourist attraction to save her family's failing motel. Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn't eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman's dream, but at least it's an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel's housekeeper, and her Uncle Mordy, who comes to help out for the summer. She spends her free time helping Kate's grandmother make her famous grape pies and begins to face her fears by taking swimming lessons in the motel's pool. But when it becomes clear that only a miracle is going to save the Jewel from bankruptcy, Jewish Miriam and Catholic Kate decide to create their own. Otherwise, the No Vacancy sign will come down for good, and Miriam will lose the life she's worked so hard to build. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6 Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text. .… (más)

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Miriam and her new friend Kate concoct a “miracle” in order to attract visitors to Miriam’s family’s small town motel in this story about community, interfaith understanding, making a home, and keeping up Jewish traditions. (Sydney Taylor Middle Grade Honor Book) (

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Miriam's family had to leave Manhattan when her dad lost his job; they've bought a motel upstate that will be their new home and livelihood. But the motel isn't doing so well, and therefore, neither is the diner next door. Miriam makes friends with the diner owners' granddaughter, Kate, and the two of them decide that what Greenvale needs is a miracle - so they make one. Miriam's family is Jewish, Kate's is Catholic. All characters are assumed white; one young guest at the motel uses a wheelchair.

Cohen has packed a lot into this slim book: fears (of moving, of losing their home, of swimming, of people of other religions), family ties (Uncle Mordy comes to help for a lot of the summer), cross-cultural and interfaith relationships (Miriam learns Spanish words from the bilingual cleaner, Maria), anti-Semitic acts and their repercussions - and possible responses. Miriam is a complex, realistic character.

See also: Front Desk by Kelly Yang, The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin

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Dad gives me a big smile - the kind adults give you when they're trying to make you feel something they don't. (11)

Shabbat is like that. No matter how busy the week has been, how much everyone has rushed around not having time for anything but work, on Friday night everyone takes a big breath and sees each other again. (45)

"The problem with Greenvale is that we don't have anything people come to see." (Kate to Miriam, 74)

"Life is not simply what happens to us. Life is what we do with what happens to us." (Rabbi Yael, 131)

"Have you ever made assumptions about something or someone but then found out you were wrong?" (Father Donovan, 195)

"When someone is different from us, sometimes we jump to conclusions instead of taking the time to understand." (196) (

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Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML:

With the help of her Catholic friend, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl creates a provocative local tourist attraction to save her family's failing motel.

Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn't eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman's dream, but at least it's an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel's housekeeper, and her Uncle Mordy, who comes to help out for the summer. She spends her free time helping Kate's grandmother make her famous grape pies and begins to face her fears by taking swimming lessons in the motel's pool.

But when it becomes clear that only a miracle is going to save the Jewel from bankruptcy, Jewish Miriam and Catholic Kate decide to create their own. Otherwise, the No Vacancy sign will come down for good, and Miriam will lose the life she's worked so hard to build.

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6
Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6
Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

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