![]() If you would like to buy this book on Amazon, click here. I would certainly not be unhappy to see this on the Newbery or other award list next January.Ĭons: The future still seems pretty uncertain for Jude and her family. ![]() Pros: The poetic language of this novel in verse is both beautiful and accessible, and American readers will get a greater understanding of what life for immigrants and refugees is like. ![]() Includes an author’s note with websites to visit for more information about Syria and Syrian refugees. ![]() Seeing her mother’s courage and resilience inspires her, and new friends help her to move toward a hopeful future by the end of the book. She lives and writes in Cincinnati, Ohio. S he is the author of the novels for teens My Heart and Other Black Holes, which has been translated into over twenty languages, and Here We Are Now. Concern for her brother and her best friend, both of whom go missing after she gets to the U.S., and for her father, whose fate in Syria is uncertain, color Jude’s days. Jasmine Warga s debut middle grade book, Other Words for Home, is a Newbery Honor Book. But she also must deal with a cousin who’s not thrilled to have to share her home and with racism when she starts wearing hijab. She likes her ELL classmates and bravely decides to try out for her middle school’s production of Beauty and the Beast. In America, Jude finds both good and bad. When her mother tells Jude that she’s expecting a baby, she also reveals that the two of them are moving to Jude’s uncle’s house in Cincinnati, Ohio. ![]() Summary: Jude worries about the changes going on in her Syrian town: the tourist business has almost completely stopped, and her college-age brother is increasingly involved in protests that could get him arrested or worse. ![]()
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