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A beautiful Sukkot picture book about friendship and community. ""Delightful"" David Adler, author of the popular Cam Jansen series ""Beyond explaining the holiday's significance, Leah's story will serve to illustrate Judaism's model of kehilla (community), in which cooperative spirit brings people together.""--Kirkus Reviews Leah lives high up in an apartment building overlooking the city and dreams of having a sukkah of her own. But there's no place to build it. With some help from the neighbors, Leah and her friend Ari find a way to have their own sukkah - on the roof. Includes a note for families about the Jewish value of kehilla (community).

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​“Sky-High Sukkah is a delightful story of how good deeds can bring people together. I look forward to reading it to my grandchildren.” --David A. Adler, author of the popular Cam Jansen mystery series and many other books, including Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles ""Friends and neighbors help apartment dweller Leah figure out a way to build a communal sukkah for the autumn holiday. Living in a city high-rise does not afford Leah and her white, Jewish family an opportunity to create their own family sukkah. There is no backyard, and no one is ever allowed up on the roof, so celebrating at someone else’s sukkah is the norm, much to Leah’s dismay. When her friend Ari, also white, wins the Hebrew school poster contest for his painting of a city skyscraper crowned with a fully decorated sukkah, the prize is a real sukkah kit. But how can Ari make use of it without help? Neighbors and friends join in, volunteering to store, carry, build, and decorate this special sukkah everyone will share on the roof of Ari’s apartment house. More than simply celebrating in her own sukkah, Leah comes to understand the value of participating as part of a community. Gouache paintings in the blues and grays of a realistic urban concrete landscape complete the subtly informative narrative, which culminates with a colorful sukkah decked out with fruits and vegetables gifted by the local greengrocer, a black gentile named Al. Beyond explaining the holiday’s significance, Leah’s story will serve to illustrate Judaism’s model of kehilla (community), in which cooperative spirit brings people together. (author’s note) (Picture book. 4-7)"" --Kirkus Reviews

​“Sky-High Sukkah is a delightful story of how good deeds can bring people together. I look forward to reading it to my grandchildren.”  -- David A. Adler, author of the popular Cam Jansen mystery series and many other books, including Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles

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Deborah Zemke is the author and/or illustrator of more than forty children's books, including Bea Garcia: My Life in Pictures and The Case of the Missing Carrot Cake. For more information, visit her website at www.deborahzemke.com.

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