# The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come - Hardcover

by **Sue Macy** (Author), **Stacy Innerst** (Illustrator)

**Recipient of a Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers**  
**An ALA Notable Book**  
**A Bank Street Best Book of the Year**

**"Text and illustration meld beautifully." --_The New York Times_**  
**"Stunning."​ --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)**  
**"****Inspired... a\] journalistic, propulsive narrative.****"** **--_Publishers Weekly_ (starred review)**  
**"The story comes alive through the bold acrylic and gouache art." --_Booklist_ (starred review)**

**From _New York Times_ Best Illustrated Book artist Stacy Innerst and author Sue Macy comes a story of one man's heroic effort to save the world's Yiddish books in their Sydney Taylor Book Award-winning masterpiece.**

Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he's found plenty. Lansky's treasure was any book written Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient has collected close to 1.5 million books, and he's finding more every day.

Told in a folkloric voice reminiscent of Patricia Polacco, this story celebrates the power of an individual to preserve history and culture, while exploring timely themes of identity and immigration.

### Author Biography

Sue Macy is the acclaimed author of many books for young readers, including _Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber_, which was on the Amelia Bloomer List and named a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book, among many other accolades. Sue is also the author of _Wheels of_ _Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom_ and _Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player_ _Put Women's Hoops on the Map_. A former editor at Scholastic, she lives in Englewood, New Jersey. Learn more at SueMacy.com.

Stacy Innerst is the illustrator of _Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of RBG vs. Inequality_, which earned the prestigious designation of _New York Times_ Best Illustrated Children's Book. He also illustrated the award-winning _The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue_, which received four starred reviews; _Thomas Jefferson Grows a Nation_; and _Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Ideas_, among others. He studied art and history at the University of New Mexico and resides in Pittsburgh. Learn more at StacyInnerst.com.

**Number of Pages:** 48

**Dimensions:** 0.3 x 11.5 x 8.8 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 01, 2019

**Award:** Sydney Taylor Book Award (2020)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come

**Interest Level:** Lower Grades, K-3

**Reading Level:** 5

**Point Value:** 0.5

## Details

- **Price:** 17.99 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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