Elissa Brent Weissman

In this delightfully upside-down picture book holiday story, cousins from opposite sides of the globe debate who can celebrate the best Hanukkah. Eight chances to prove it—may the best cousin win! “You’ll have Hanukkah in summer? Talk about backwards.” “Your Hanukkah’s in winter? You’re missing out.” From their homes in New York and New Zealand, cousins Noah and Nora decide...

When Ash gets kicked off her school's news show, she becomes a renegade reporter--and makes a big discovery about technology and her fellow students' privacy. When Ash gets kicked off her school's news show, she becomes a renegade reporter--and makes a big discovery about technology and her fellow students' privacy. Ash and her friends are reporters. They were ready to...

A thoughtful, gripping, and heart-wrenching novel about two girls brought together by their momfluencers. Quiet, introverted Hadley and rough-around-the-edges Willow have one big main thing in common—both their mums have gained a huge online following sharing every detail of their lives. Hadley's mum, Phoebe, of @PhoebeAndJay fame, loves to share all the terrible, down and dirty bits about raising kids,...

The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman is a poignant story about identity and family connections. Imani is adopted, and she's ready to search for her birth parents. But when she discovers the diary her Jewish great-grandmother wrote chronicling her escape from Holocaust-era Europe, Imani begins to see family in a new way. Imani knows exactly what she...