Sonia Levitin

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1973
  • Latest Book:
    August 2013
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Tales of Young Americans

Junk Man's Daughter (Nov-2007)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Roanoke: a Novel of the Lost Colony

  • Jason and the Money Tree.

  • Beyond Another Door

  • The Year Of Sweet Senior Insanity

  • Smile Like a Plastic Daisy

    A high school senior, concerned about the fight for women's rights, finds herself suspended from school and the focus of community debate following a confrontation at a swim meet during which she removed her shirt....

  • Smile Like Plast Daisy

  • The Return

    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 out on the long and dangerous trip to freedom -- an airlift from the Sudan to Israel, the Prom...

  • Journey to America

    A beautifully repackaged 50th anniversary edition of Sonia Levitin’s powerful classic story about a young Jewish girl forced to flee her home, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.In 1938, Lisa Platt and her family know something dangerous is h...

  • A Season for Unicorns

    Hot-air balloonist Gus McMurphy and his mother counsel Inky, a young girl shocked and confused by the discovery that her handsome father has been repeatedly unfaithful to her resigned and unhappy mother...



  • The Mark of Conte

  • Incident at Loring Groves

    Ken and Cassidy both know the rules for success, but the rules of the game are changed by their discovery of the body of a classmate and the decision of whether or not inform the police and become involved in a murder...

  • Fisherman and the Bird

  • Silver Days

  • Rita, the Weekend Rat

  • Annie's Promise

  • Escape from Egypt

    The Exodus story forms the backdrop for this carefully researched novel in which Jesse, a Hebrew slave, is torn between his family's wishes and his passion for the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat. By the author of Journey to America. ...

  • Adam's War

  • Golem and the Dragon Girl

    Laurel Wang knows that the ghost of her beloved great-grandfather lives in the oak tree outside her house. But now her grandparents are arriving from China, and the family must move to a bigger place, leaving the protective spirit behind.
    Twelve-y...

  • Evil Encounter



  • Nine for California

  • Yesterday's Child

    "Time will help. Time will heal." That's what people promised. But for Laura, nothing is helping or healing. Her mother's death has left a void in her. It's made Laura realize she hardly knew her mother, and that can never be fixed. So Laura lies ...

  • Boom Town

  • The Cure

    Deviant. Rebellious. Abnormal. The Elders say Gemm 16884 is all these things, and that he is a threat to the utopian society in which he lives. The Elders give him one chance to save himself: He must undergo the mysterious and painful “cure,” or ...

  • The Singing Mountain

    While traveling in Israel for the summer, seventeen-year-old Mitch decides to stay and pursue a life of Jewish orthodoxy, forcing him to make some important decisions about the family and life he is leaving in southern California....

  • Dream Freedom

    Slavery still exists in some parts of the world, even in the year 2000. In Sudan, tens of thousands of men, women, and children of the Dinka and Nuba tribes are regularly captured, taken from their homes and families, and forced into hard labor. Base...

  • When Elephant Goes to a Party

  • When Kangaroo Goes to School

  • Clem's Chances

    In 1860, fourteen-year-old Clem Fontayne learns from fellow travelers about important topics of the day, including the Mormon migration, slavery, and the Pony express, as he journeys from Missouri to California in search of his father....

  • Room in the Heart

    Told from various perspectives, a powerful novel revisits the Nazi occupation of Copenhagen as Julie, along with her family, places her faith in Niels, a member of the Danish resistance who has learned of a Nazi plot to imprison all of Copenhagen's J...



  • The Goodness Gene

    As son of the Compassionate Director of the Dominion of the Americas, Will, along with his twin brother Berk, has been groomed for leadership in a society that values genetic fitness, but he encounters information which causes him to question that so...

  • Strange Relations

    A summer in paradise. That's all Marne wants. That's all she can think of when she asks her parents permission to spend the summer in Hawaii with Aunt Carole and her family. But Marne quickly realizes her visit isn't going to be just about learnin...

  • Junk Man's Daughter

    Tales of Young Americans

    Even before they immigrate to America, Hanna and her family dream of the new life they will have there. "You will see, Hanna," Papa said. "There are streets of gold." But when they arrive, they find life very different from what they had imagined. Th...

  • Junkman's Daughter

    Even before they immigrate to America, Hanna and her family dream of the new life they will have there. "You will see, Hanna," Papa said. "There are streets of gold." But when they arrive, they find life very different from what they had imagined. Th...

  • The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket

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Award-Winning Books by Sonia Levitin

Incident at Loring Groves
1989 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Young Adult
The Return
1987 Sydney Taylor Book Award -- Older Readers
1988 PEN Literary Award -- Children/Young Adult
Strange Relations
2008 Sydney Taylor Book Award -- Teen


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sonia Levitin has published 34 books.

Sonia Levitin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Junkman's Daughter, was published in August 2013.

The first book by Sonia Levitin, Roanoke: a Novel of the Lost Colony, was published in June 1973.

No. Sonia Levitin does not write books in series.
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