The story of Hanukkah is the story of the triumph of light over darkness, of the small miracles that give hope to an entire people.  In a series of eight powerful and evocative free-verse poems, award-winning author Karen Hesse captures this resilient spirit of the Jewish people through the imagined voices of eight children at Hanukkah.  The children—from Tamara in twelfth-century England and Jeremie in thirteenth-century France to Havva in seventeenth-century Israel—have all experienced loss and hardship.  But they are united by love, family, and their cherished stone lamp.  The stone lamp provides each child with comfort and hope—for every time its wicks are lit, the endurance of the Jewish people is reillumined.

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