"The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden" Wins Ben Franklin Award for Best First Novel

"The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden," by Robert Avrech, has been awarded the 2006 Ben Franklin Award for Best First Novel from PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 18, 2006 -- "The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden" wins Ben Franklin Award for Best First Novel.

"The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden," by Robert Avrech, has been awarded the 2006 Ben Franklin Award for Best First Novel from PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association at the 2006 Publishing University, in association with Book Expo America in Washington D.C. The page-turner was previously named a "Notable Children's Book of Jewish Content" by the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Avrech brings together a cast of characters that includes a mystical scholar and an archetypal Jewish mother who battle the forces of evil in the Wild West with Kabbalah and kugel; the "Hebrew Kid," himself: Ariel--a spunky bar mitzvah boy, his feisty sister Rebecca, Lozen--the fierce but enchanting "Apache Maiden" warrior, her brother--Chief Victorio, Geronimo, U.S. cavalry, scalp hunters, settlers and the legendary Doc Holliday. All brought together in a yarn of escape, war, rampages and abduction, trust and love... leading up to a rollicking surprise ending.

Author Robert Avrech is an Emmy-winning screenwriter whose credits include "A Stranger Among Us," and "The Devil's Arithmetic." This is his first novel.

"The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden" (Seraphic Press, ISBN: 0975438220, 228 pages, hardcover, $11.95) For more information, go to http://www.seraphicpress.com/thkatam.php

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