{"id":41689,"date":"2024-08-07T21:19:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41689"},"modified":"2024-08-07T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:19:27","slug":"review-of-aviva-vs-the-dybbuk-by-mari-lowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41689","title":{"rendered":"Review of Aviva vs. the Dybbuk, by Mari Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aviva_vs_the_dybbuk_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aviva_vs_the_dybbuk_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41841\" \/><\/a><em>Aviva vs. the Dybbuk<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Mari Lowe<\/p>\n<p>Levine Querido, 2022, 172 pages.<br \/>\nReview written August 5, 2022, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>This book tells about an girl named Aviva who lives with her mother in an apartment over a mikvah next to the shul in their Orthodox Jewish community.  They&#8217;ve lived there since Aviva&#8217;s father died, and it&#8217;s all her mother can manage to take care of the mikvah.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a dybbuk, a mischievous spirit, in the mikvah, and only Aviva can see him.  She can&#8217;t control him, but she can clean up after him.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at school Aviva and her former best friend get in trouble and assigned to do a project together.  Maybe that will build some bridges.  But why is the dybbuk getting even worse in the trouble he&#8217;s causing?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of sadness in this book.  But ultimately a hopeful ending as events in the book help both Aviva and her mother start to go beyond their sad loss with the help of their loving community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.levinequerido.com\/\">levinequerido.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1646141253\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n<p>*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe Levine Querido, 2022, 172 pages. Review written August 5, 2022, from a library book This book tells about an girl named Aviva who lives with her mother in an apartment over a mikvah next to the shul in their Orthodox Jewish community. They&#8217;ve lived there since Aviva&#8217;s father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-contemporary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44143,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41689\/revisions\/44143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}