Marilyn Sachs

1927–2016

Children’s author Marilyn Sachs grew up in New York City and lives in San Francisco. A children’s librarian, she wrote more than thirty realistic fiction books for young readers, including stories about the Holocaust. Sachs’s Call Me Ruth received the Association of Jewish Libraries Award in 1983.

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Call Me Ruth

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So I’m glad I got the napkin back. Because she made it for me when we had all the time. Back in the old country when the two of us loved each other better than anybody else in the whole world. I had…