{"product_id":"book-ir5g","title":"The Blood Lie","description":"2012 Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book, 2012 Skipping Stone Honor Book. Lauren Myracle, author of Shine,\u003cbr\u003ecalls it \"a powerful—and poignant—reminder that no person can live freely until all people can live freely.\" Blood\u003cbr\u003eLie was the winner of the 2012 Simon Wiesenthal Once Upon a World Children's Book Award.\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 22, 1928, Massena, New York. Jack Pool's sixteenth birthday. He's been restless lately, especially\u003cbr\u003eduring this season of more-times-at-the-synagogue than you can shake a stick at. If it wasn't Rosh Hashanah,\u003cbr\u003ethen it was Yom Kippur, and if it wasn't Yom Kippur, it was the Sabbath. But temple's good for some things. It\u003cbr\u003egives him lots of time to daydream about a beautiful but inaccessible Gentile girl named Emaline. And if she\u003cbr\u003eisn't on his mind, then he's thinking about his music and imagining himself playing the cello with the New York\u003cbr\u003ePhilharmonic. Yup, music is definitely his ticket out of this remote whistle-stop town—he doesn't want to be\u003cbr\u003estuck here one more minute. But he doesn't realize exactly how stuck he is until Emaline's little sister Daisy\u003cbr\u003egoes missing and he and his family are accused of killing her for a blood sacrifice.\u003cbr\u003eBlood Lie was inspired by a real blood libel that took place when a small girl disappeared from Massena, New\u003cbr\u003eYork, in 1928, and an innocent Jewish boy was called a murderer.\u003cbr\u003e\"Vernick’s novel is a scathing indictment of anti-Semitism…it is an important book that reminds us of the\u003cbr\u003eimperative need to remember lest we find ourselves repeating the horrors of the past.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\"Effectively mines layers of ignorance, fear, intolerance and manipulation.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003eShirley Reva Vernick's interviews and feature articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping,\u003cbr\u003eLadies' Home Journal, and national newspapers. She also runs a popular storytelling website, storybee.org,\u003cbr\u003ewhich is used in schools and libraries all over the world. Shirley grew up in the town where the blood libel\u003cbr\u003ehappened, as did her father, whose family was directly victimized by it.","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49350442680624,"sku":"BDir5g","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49422057799984,"sku":"ZEir5g","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49422057963824,"sku":"ZMir5g","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/573672-ir5g-Square.jpg?v=1734286022","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ir5g","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}