At just 15-years-old, a North Reading teen is now an author. Her love for reading and writing—and inspiration from her first-grade teacher—paved the way for her first book—and a true pinch me moment.

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late, great Yiddish ...