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Calling All
Young Readers

M

aybe your idea of a fun
evening is sitting around
reading the New York
Times. Or maybe Nickelodeon
magazine is more your style.

happen. They knew He would never
ome is not the ghetto for all
lie.
the Jews that wanted to go.
A lot of them died. But it is not
Home is not the concen-
His fault, but neither ours or
tration camp, either, nor the lit-
theirs.
We don't care what
: tle place they hid at nei-
So they went; they
you read. So long as
ther.
walked; they travelled;
Home is the horne-
you can read, and like
they swam.
t land, the country, the
to read, we want you!
Whatever they
The AppleTree is in
place; home is
could do to get
where the forefa-
search of young readers
there they did.
thers came from.
to review books. If
They got there.
They wanted to
you're interested, we'll
Not all of them,
get there at a
send you a book, you
though. But their
read it, then tell us what I rather fast pace.
hearts are definitely
From darkness to
you think. If we like your
there
dawn, from moon
review (which should be
Forever and ever,
to moon, from rota-
no longer than .500
never to
; tion to rotation they
words), we'll use it,
I
end.
along with your photo,
• worked.
Our home is Israel.
In the ghetto. In the con-
in the paper. (In any
: centration camp.
case, we'll let you keep
Elana Ackerman
In the little place
the book).
they hid at. But
If you would like to be
when they get to this country, this
an AppleTree book
Has your child written a poem,
splendid
place that the forefathers
reviewer, please write
short story or essay you think
came from, they will work, work
and tell us a little about
would be of interest to readers?
happily.
yourself, including your
Material should be on a Jewish
God promised that this would
name, age, school and
theme and no longer than two
what you like to read.
pages. Please send to: Young
Send to Make Me A Reviewer!
Elana, 10-1/2, wrote this poem
Writers, c/o The AppleTree,
c/o The AppleTree, 27676
following her reading of After the
27676 Franklin Road,
Franklin Road, Southfield, MI
War, about the Holocaust. She lives
Southfield, MI 48034.
48034.
in Birmingham and attends Hillel
Day School.

temernber the good old
:clays, when dinner meant
the whole family sat down
together and had spaghetti and
corn and salad, or chicken and
lima beans and mashed pota-
toes?
It turns out that the meal was

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more than just good for the stom-
ach. It's good for the soul, too.
The Cincinnati Children's
Hospital Medical Center recently
conducted a study among 500
adolescents. The subject: dinner.
Researchers found that teens who
ate at least five meals a week with

their families were less likely to use
drugs and be depressed, and
were more likely to do well in
school and have good relation
ships with peers than teens who
had dinner with their parents three
times a week.
Pass the mashed potatoes. Cl