Dreidels on the Brain

Dreidels on the Brain

At last a great American Hanukkah story! This very funny, very touching novel of growing up Jewish has the makings of a holiday classic.

One lousy miracle.Â Is that too much to ask?

Evidently so for Joel, as he tries to survive Hannukah, 1971 in the suburbs of the suburbs of Los Angeles (or, as he calls it, â€œThe Land of Shriveled Dreamsâ€). Thatâ€™s no small task when youâ€™re a â€œseriously funny-lookingâ€ twelve-year-old magician who dreams of being his own superhero: Normalman.Â And Joelâ€™s a long way from that as the only Jew at Bixby School, where his attempts to make himself disappear fail spectacularly.Â Home is no better, with a family thatâ€™s not just mortifyingly embarrassing but flat-out broke.Â

Thatâ€™s why Joelâ€™s betting everything on these eight nights, to see whether itâ€™s worth believing in God or miracles or anything at all.Â Armed with his favorite jokes, some choice Yiddish words, and a suitcase full of magic tricks, heâ€™s scrambling to come to terms with the world he lives inâ€”from hospitals to Houdini to the Holocaustâ€”before the last of the candles burns out.

No wonder his head is spinning: Heâ€™s got dreidels on the brain. And little does he know that whatâ€™s actually about to happen to him and his family this Hanukkah will be worse than heâ€™d feared . . .Â And better than he could have imagined.
Country USA
Brand DIAL
Manufacturer Dial Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0803740972_used
Color Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate 2016-10-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780803740976

Country	USA
Brand	DIAL
Manufacturer	Dial Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0803740972_used
Color	Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate	2016-10-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780803740976

Dreidels on the Brain

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