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Yona Zeldis McDonough

Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of novels such as A Wedding in Great Neck and You Were Meant for Me as well as dozens of books for children. She is the editor of and a contributor to The Barbie Chronicles: A Living Doll Turns Forty, as well as All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Where Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Who Was Harriet Tubman?
What Are the Ten Commandments?
Who Was Sojourner Truth?
What Was the Underground Railroad?
The Cats in the Doll Shop
The Doll Shop Downstairs
Who Was Rosa Parks?
Who Was Louis Armstrong?
Who Was John F. Kennedy?
Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

Books

Where Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Who Was Harriet Tubman?
What Are the Ten Commandments?
Who Was Sojourner Truth?
What Was the Underground Railroad?
The Cats in the Doll Shop
The Doll Shop Downstairs
Who Was Rosa Parks?
Who Was Louis Armstrong?
Who Was John F. Kennedy?
Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

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