Compact discs. When her parents decide to buy and move into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York, its not exactly eleven-year-old Miriam Brockmans dream. She misses her familiar routine and life in Manhattan, especially Shabbat dinners with friends and family. It turns out that running a motel is a lot of hard work, but its also a bit of an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motels housekeeper, and Father Donovan, the local priest. But when it becomes clear that only a miracle is going to save the Jewel from bankruptcy, Jewish Miriam and Catholic Kate decide to create one of their own. Read by Rachel Botchan.
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