Books by Pamela Melnikoff

When the Nazis take twelve-year-old Jan's family away, Jan ventures into the dangerous streets of the city, where he finds refuge in the old Jewish cemetery and the tomb of Rabbi Loewe. Jan travels back in time. Will he find a way to escape from the fate that was to befall a million and a half Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Europe?

It is 1594 and young William Shakespeare is working on The Merchant of Venice

Two Jewish children, Benedict and Elvira, are suddenly orphaned after a pogrom in twelfth-century Yorkshire, England, shatters their contented and comfortable lives. Alone in a hostile world, they set out for Oxford, where they have relatives. Along the way they meet Robin Hood and his men in Sherwood Forest. Many exciting adventures follow...