Praise for Tziporah Cohen and No Vacancy: Commended Sydney Taylor Book Award -- Honor, 2021 Finalist National Jewish Book Award -- Middle Grade Literature, 2020 Shortlisted Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award -- English Fiction, 2021-2022 Shortlisted Jean Little First-Novel Award, 2021 A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, 2021 "With effortless mastery, Cohen weaves the opposing forces of innocence and corruption, right and wrong, love and hate." -- Quill & Quire, starred review "It's wonderful when a book about miracles turns out to be one. And the miracle in No Vacancy above everything else is kindness." -- Tim Wynne-Jones, award-winning author "Debut author Cohen displays a knack for storytelling that makes this a thoughtful, engrossing, funny read." -- Booklist "A leisurely paced, character-rich tale of family, religious faith, and the human need for the miraculous. Strongly recommended for middle grade collections." -- School Library Journal "This summer-in-a-small-town novel, with a mischief-based premise and an old-fashioned feel, includes plenty of exploration of how Miriam and her family fit into the larger community." -- Horn Book "Miriam is a delight, both sarcastic and complex.
sensitive plot layers portray differences between types of Judaism, showing how people of different faiths, languages, ages, and backgrounds can have respectful and close relationships." -- Foreword Reviews "It's the connections between the characters that really made this story come alive." -- CM Review of Materials "[A] simple story filled with memorable and sympathetic characters." -- Canadian Children's Book News "Miriam is an intelligent pre-teen with lots of worthy questions [and] the prose is easy to read" -- Association of Jewish Libraries "Filled with thoughtful, masterful writing, No Vacancy offers readers a wonderful cast of characters, a chance to consider what is right or wrong, to look at differences with tender care and concern, and to look at racism as it exists in society." -- Sal's Fiction Addiction Blog "Cohen skillfully and with age appropriateness addresses the issues of bigotry, hatred, and small mindedness. The sense of community that is created in this book is a refreshing difference to the hardness we have come to expect from the world. We can all learn a valuable lesson about how to treat others and that we are really not all that different!" -- Books, Hot Tea and Me Blog "This is a really fun novel of friendship, family, and adventure." -- MSL Book Review Blog "[A] suspenseful and delightful little book.
" -- Katia Raina Blog "The author introduces some difficult topics, such as antisemitism, in an engaging way for middle grade audiences." -- Jewish Book Council.