People Like Us

by Barbara Cohen

Fifteen-year-old Dinah's insistence on dating a handsome football star causes bitter dissension in her family because the boy is not a Jew like them.

136 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Barbara Cohen (1932-1992) was the author of several acclaimed picture books and novels for young readers, including The Carp in the Bathtub, Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story, Thank You, Jackie Robinson, and King of the Seventh Grade.

Reviews

[Nora · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book stressed me out when I was a teenager because the basic moral, as I remember it, was that Jews should not date non-Jews.