Dave at Night
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Dave at Night is a novel written by Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine is an American author of young adult books. Her first novel, Ella Enchanted, received a Newbery Honor in 1998.-Early life:...

 and was published in 1999. The story is inspired by Levine's father's experience as an orphan. It takes place in 1920's New York during the Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke...

. The real life model for the "Hebrew Home for Boys" was the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, which the author's father attended.
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