A Dreidel in Time
by Marcia Berneger
Nine-year-old Benjamin and his younger sister Devorah are given a dreidel that takes them
back to the Maccabean Revolt and the first Hanukkah.
— Michael Main
“What’s happening?” Benjamin cried. The dreidel spun faster and faster until the
whole room whirled with it. He grabbed onto Devorah and shut his eyes.
A Dreidel in Time: A New Spin on an Old Tale by Marcia
Berneger (Kar-Ben, September 2019).