The Secret Shofar of Barcelona. Available in Soft Cover and Hard Cover. A Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable Book. Listed on Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year. Musician Don Fernando longs to hear the sounds of the shofar on the High Holidays, but, like the other secret Jews in Inquisition-era Spain, he must hide his religion. When he is asked to perform a symphony celebrating the new world, he and his son Rafael devise a daring plan to usher in the Jewish New Year in plain sight of the Spanish nobility!

32 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/2, Ages 5-9, Grades K-3