My Name Is Aviva (Enhanced Edition)
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Publisher Description
Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! "My name is Aviva, not Amoeba!" shouts Aviva at her teasing classmates. Aviva is determined to change her name until she discovers where her name comes from and why her parents chose that special name for her.
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It's tough to be a kid with an unusual name (unless you're Blue Ivy Carter, perhaps). In accordance with Jewish tradition, Newman's heroine has been named after a loved one, her late great-grandmother Ada, whose Hebrew name was Aviva. Unfortunately, it inspires her classmates to call her everything from "Amoeba" to "Viva La France." Henceforth, Aviva wants to be known as Emily. Her parents play along, but they also make sure Aviva understand her name's backstory: how Ada immigrated to America as a child, worked in a lace factory at age 10, taught herself English, and made chicken soup "so delicious, everyone told her to open a restaurant." Aviva realizes that her name has a more profound meaning than she ever imagined it connects her not only to her faith traditions but also to a woman who was "brave and smart and talented and kind." Jatkowska's upbeat characters have an oddly wooden, doll-like quality, but it doesn't intrude on Newman's storytelling, which is characteristically empathic, soulful, and wise not to mention a great lead-in to discussions about readers' own names. Ages 3 8.