Adam Jacobs, a seventh grader at Beachmont Middle and the son of a Holocaust survivor, is tired of Hebrew School and tired of being bullied because he is Jewish. The bright spot in Adam's day is when he follows Sally Fletcher—and her irresistible blonde ponytailhome from school. But it is 1966, and Sally is Catholic. Jews and Catholics don't mix in the suburban town of Beachmont, New York. Inspired by the reclusive writer and activist, Gladys McKinley, and horrified by the religious and ra...

#1 AMAZON BESTSELLERPaul is a freshman at Eastman University in upstate New York in the autumn of 1971, where he first meets his roommate Jack McHugh and later Jack's sister Annie, with whom he falls in love. Annie is a high-school basketball player, but when Jack's Firebird crashes into a ditch in a snowstorm, Annie suffers severe injuries and has to stay at the Eastman University hospital for a long period of time. Annie's parents cannot afford to pay for her operations, so Paul ...

Adam Jacobs, a seventh grader at Beachmont Middle and the son of a Holocaust survivor, is tired of Hebrew School and tired of being bullied because he is Jewish. The bright spot in Adam’s day is when he follows Sally Fletcher—and her irresistible blonde ponytail—home from school. But it is 1966, and Sally is Catholic. Jews and Catholics don’t mix in the suburban town of Beachmont, New York.Inspired by the reclusive writer and activist, Gladys McKinley, and horrified by the religiou...

In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, Mathew Tekulsky's The Chestnut Tree is a coming-of-age novel about conscience and courage.A twelve-year-old boy comes of age in the suburbs of 1960s New York, where first love, family, and quiet divisions in his community shape his understanding of who he is.In The Chestnut Tree, twelve-year-old Adam Jacobs comes of age in the suburban town of Beachmont, New York, during the turbulent years of 1966-67. As...