Israel Fiction for Young Adults
Explore captivating Israel fiction for young adults with our curated list of top books. Discover thrilling stories, rich cultures, and unforgettable adventures set in Israel.
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Duel
by David Grossman
David is a twelve-year-old boy living in Jerusalem in 1966. His best friend just happens to be seventy-year-old Heinrich Rosenthal, who lives at the Beit …
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Samir and Yonatan
by Daniella Carmi
Samir, is sent to an Israeli hospital where he makes friends with an Israeli boy, who travels with him to Mars, and finds peace about …
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Checkpoints
by Marilyn Levy
Tensions in 2002 Jerusalem have not interfered much with sixteen-year-old Noa's life, and she is even forming a friendship with a Palestinian Muslim girl, but …
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Running on Eggs
by Anna Levine
When Karen and Yasmine become friends as well as members of a mixed Arab and Jewish track team in Israel, relatives and friends of both …
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The Zigzag Kid
by David Grossman
The picaresque adventures of Annon Feuerberg, 12, an Israeli policeman's son kidnaped by his father's arch-enemy, a master thief. The thief takes Annon on a …
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Under the Domim Tree
by Gila Almagor
A moving story about three girls coming of age in post-Holocaust Israel. Like most of the children in Udim, a youth village nestled along Israel's …
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One More River
by Lynne Reid Banks
Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then …
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Broken Bridge
by Lynne Reid Banks
This is the sequel to One More River. Time has moved on, it is the 1990s and this is the story of Lesley's Israeli daughter …
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Return
by Sonia Levitin
Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle and set …
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When I Was a Soldier
by Valerie Zenatti
The story of one girl's experience in the Israeli national army where strict routines, grueling marches, poor food, and lack of sleep are the norm, …
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Soumchi
by Amos Oz
Soumchi is eleven years old, and growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem, just after World War II. His universe is enriched immeasurably when he is given …
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The Lady with the Hat
by Uri Orlev
Yulek, a Holocaust survivor, finds himself tragically alone at war's end. Hoping to begin again, he makes his way to Palestine, where he meets a …
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The Storyteller's Beads
by Jane Kurtz
Running for their lives to escape the political upheaval in Ethiopia, two young girls, Rahel and Sahay, must overcome their fear and prejudice and turn …
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The Source
by James A. Michener
In his signature style of grand storytelling, James A. Michener transports us back thousands of years to the Holy Land. Through the discoveries of modern …
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Exodus
by Leon Uris
For use in schools and libraries only. An American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter get caught up in the re-birth of Israel.
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The Haj
by Leon Uris
“The narrative is fast paced, bursting with action, and obviously based on an intimate grasp of the region, its peoples, their tradition and age-old ways …
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Someone to Run With
by David Grossman
Capturing the lives of Israeli street kids, follows two teenagers--Assaf, a shy and awkward sixteen year old, and Tamar, a talented young singer--and the missing …
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How to Ruin a Summer Vacation
by Simone Elkeles
When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Israel for a three-month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for …
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How to Ruin My Teenage Life
by Simone Elkeles
In this sequel to "How to Ruin a Summer Vacation," everything in 16-year-old Amy Nelson Barak's life is going wrong. What's a girl to do …
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The Weight of the Sky
by Lisa Ann Sandell
A sixteen-year-old girl travels to Israel to spend the summer on a kibbutz and discovers who she is and what she wants out of life.
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Real Time
by Pnina Kass
Sixteen-year-old Tomas Wanninger persuades his mother to let him leave Germany to volunteer at a kibbutz in Israel, where he experiences a violent political attack …
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Masada
by Gloria D. Miklowitz
In the year 72 C.E., after a four-year war between Rome and Judea, only one fortress remains to be taken: Masada, high above the Dead …
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After the War
by Carol Matas
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe …
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Flying Lessons
by Nava Semel
Living in a village in Israel where her father grows oranges, a motherless girl befriends a sensitive shoemaker from Djerba from whom she hopes to …
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Becoming Gershona
by Nava Semel
Living in Tel-Aviv in 1958, twelve-year-old Gershona experiences first love, learns a family secret, and crosses the line between childhood and adulthood.
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Boy from Over There
by Tamar Bergman
The story of an Israeli kibbutz and the children who lived there.
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Brothers Divided
by Eli Jacobs
Iranian agents have ignited a major civil war crisis in Israel. The Brothers Division, a top secret arm of the Mossad -- the Israel secret …
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Light Years
by Tammar Stein
Maya Laor leaves her home in Israel to study astronomy at the University of Virginia after the tragic death of her boyfriend in a suicide …
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The Garden
by Carol Matas
During the struggle to create the state of Israel in 1947, Ruth Mendolsohn, who helped young refugees flee Poland in "After the War", is a …
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Jeremiah's Promise
by Kenneth Roseman
The reader ventures trough Israel, traveling myriad paths that wind from Israel's cities to the kibbutzim, from service in Israel's army to helping Yemenite Jews …