W.W.Norton & Company, 2010 Joan Leegant's novel is rooted in three narratives. The characters are distinct, but each is a young American who has travelled to Israel, and, you'll see, there are other similarities in their stories too. Yona was first in Israel ten years earlier, having accompanied
Sydney Taylor's More All-of-a-Kind Family (1954) Dell Publishing, 1967 The third volume in Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family series is everything that is promised in the title: More. More years for the children, who now range in age as follows: Ella, 15; Henriette (Henny), 13; Sarah, 11; Charlotte, 9; Gertie, 7; and Charlie,
Taylor, Sydney. All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown (1972) Illus. Beth and Joe Krush Although written/published later, this fits into the series as the second volume. It's simple math, really. Although it's not exactly simple to track the ages of all six children. But here they are: Ella, 13; Henny, 11; Sarah, 8; Charlotte,
Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family (1951) Random House-Yearling, 1989. (Actually, Delacorte's 1995 cover image shown.) If you'd been at the library on the day that the girls went in the book's opening scene, you could've been introduced to them along with Miss Allen, the pretty new librarian. There's Ella, the oldest,
