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No Vacancy
- Author
- Tziporah Cohen
- Narrator
- Rachel Botchan
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 1 September 2020
- Run Time
- 4 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Religious fiction
What to expect
upstate New York, it’s not exactly eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman’s dream. She
misses her familiar routine and life in Manhattan, especially Shabbat dinners with
friends and family.
It turns out that running a motel is a lot of hard work, but it’s also a bit of an
adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door,
and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel’s housekeeper, and Father
Donovan, the local priest.
But when it becomes clear that only a miracle is going to save the Jewel from
bankruptcy, Jewish Miriam and Catholic Kate decide to create one of their own …
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Details
- Author
- Tziporah Cohen
- Narrator
- Rachel Botchan
- Duration
- 4 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 September 2020
- ISBN
- 9781980098584
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Religious fiction
Synopsis
When her parents decide to buy and move into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn inupstate New York, it’s not exactly eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman’s dream. Shemisses her familiar routine and life in Manhattan, especially Shabbat dinners withfriends and family.It turns out that running a motel is a lot of hard work, but it’s also a bit of anadventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door,and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel’s housekeeper, and FatherDonovan, the local priest.But when it becomes clear that only a miracle is going to save the Jewel frombankruptcy, Jewish Miriam and Catholic Kate decide to create one of their own …
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