Deutsch, Barry.Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite. Harry N. Abrams, 2012.
Welcome to Hereville, home of the first-ever wisecracking, adventure-loving, sword-wielding Orthodox Jewish heroine. A delightful mix of fantasy, adventure, cultural traditions, and preteen commotion, this fun, quirky graphic novel series will captivate middle-school readers with its exciting visuals and entertaining new heroine. Mirka is back, and she’s still the only sword-brandishing, monster-fighting Orthodox Jewish girl in town. Or so she thinks.

Simpson, Lesley.A Song for My Sister.Random House Books for Young Readers, 2012.
Mira eagerly waits for her baby sister to be born. However, once the baby arrives, she is not what Mira expected. Despite all efforts to soothe her, the baby’s cries cannot be stopped. As the baby cries through her simchat bat, a Jewish naming ceremony, Mira sings her sister a niggun, a wordless lullaby, which then inspires her sister’s name. A Song for My Sister offers a look into a Jewish tradition and the story of a Jewish family.

Oppenheim, Joanne. The Knish War on Rivington Street. Albert Whitman & Company, 2017.
Benny's family owns a knishery and sells delicious round dumplings. Then the Tisch family opens a store across the street—selling square knishes—and Benny's papa worries. So he lowers his prices! But Mr. Tisch does too. As each knishery tries to outdo the other, Benny helps his papa realize there's room on Rivington Street for more than one knishery.

Herman, Debbie.Rosie Saves the World.Kar-Ben Publishing, 2018.
Rosie can't wait to start doing good deeds to save the world. But as she helps the people in her neighborhood, she is soon so busy saving the world that she doesn't have time for her own family! It turns out, though, that the greatest acts of tikkun olam—repairing the world—start in her own home.

Potok, Chaim.The Chosen. Penguin Random House, 1996. Originally published in 1967.
The Chosen opens in the 1940's, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Two boys who have grown up within a few blocks of each other, but in two entirely different worlds, meet for the first time in a bizarre and explosive encounter--a baseball game between two Jewish parochial schools that turns into a holy war. The assailant is Danny Saunders--moody, brilliant, magnetic--who is driven to violence by his pent-up torment, who feels imprisoned by the tradition that destines him to succeed his awesome father in an unbroken line of great Hasidic rabbis, while his own restless intelligence is beginning to reach out into forbidden areas of secular knowledge.