Can Zaydie Stay?

By Sheila N Markowitz

A family's creative celebration of Passover is the background for this humor-filled middle grade novel about a growing up girl, a funny dog, a widowed grandmother, and the meaning of freedom. Events test Deena Cohen's ingenuity, ethics and sense of responsibility when a lost basset hound with more personality than manners follows her home a few days before the holiday. Can Zaydie Stay? It's a gentle story that kids 6 to 12 --especially those who ever wanted or yearned for a pet---can identify with and good readers 3rd grade and up can handle on their own. The book includes a sprinkling of English words which were originally (and still are) Yiddish. These are made clear in both context and in a Glossary.A lively class of 4th graders at Hilltop elementary school in Beachwood, Ohio (who did not know the author) listened to this book with rapt attention. They enjoyed: the funny dog, the real sounding people, how Deena thinks, stuff that happens, and the surprise ending. They learned some unusual new words, too.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150844126X
• ISBN13: 9781508441267
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"