Always Prayer Shawl-PB Shawn Harris “A solitary child and her

“A solitary child and her rule-breaking ghost roommate learn the value of compromise in this cheeky picture book

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the girl keeps searching

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Always Prayer Shawl-PB Shawn Harris “A solitary child and her"Some things change. And some things don't." That simple truth, whispered in a synagogue, echoes throughout this deeply felt picture book. Adam, a young Jewish boy in czarist Russia, must flee his ancestral home at the outbreak of the revolution. Before he sets sail for a new land, his grandfather gives him a prayer shawl that was handed to him by his own grandfather, who was also named Adam. And so the life of Adam and his prayer shawl unfolds from