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Jude always dreamed of America, but her dream was becoming a famous movie star just like in the American movies she and her best friend watched from their seaside town in Syria. It was nothing like what actually happened - leaving her father and brother to travel to stay with family in Cincinnati as things grow more and more volatile in Syria. Actually living in America is way different than the movies.
In America, Jude is "Middle Eastern". She gets looks from people and realizes that they assum ...more
In America, Jude is "Middle Eastern". She gets looks from people and realizes that they assum ...more
Jan 10, 2021
Sarah
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it was amazing
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4.5 stars.
I read this book as part of a three-generation book club with my Mom and 10-year old niece, and this book was selected by my niece. I am so glad she picked this book, as I never would have read it otherwise. Told in free verse (which I worried might be distracting, but wasn't), the book tells the story of Jude, a Syrian refugee who moves to a suburb of Cincinnati with her mother while her father and brother remain behind. Her struggles in acclimating to her new "home" while missing her ...more
I read this book as part of a three-generation book club with my Mom and 10-year old niece, and this book was selected by my niece. I am so glad she picked this book, as I never would have read it otherwise. Told in free verse (which I worried might be distracting, but wasn't), the book tells the story of Jude, a Syrian refugee who moves to a suburb of Cincinnati with her mother while her father and brother remain behind. Her struggles in acclimating to her new "home" while missing her ...more
Both kids, Eleanor (13) and Samuel (10), enjoyed me reading this book to them about a girl who leaves war torn Syria for the US with her mother, leaving her father and older brother behind. Winner of the 2020 Newbery Honor, it is a book in free verse with themes of coming of age, refugees, immigration and acclimating to a new home. We connected with the book even more so because Jude immigrates from Syria to our hometown Cincinnati, Ohio. The book depicts the Clifton neighborhood and specificall
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So good! We need more middle grade books with muslim girls and immigrants talking about the experience of missing home and finding a new home. Warga does such a great job with the secondary characters as well, how both Layla and Sarah struggle with identity and wanting to connect to the home their parents know but they never will.
Such a needed perspective!
Oct 14, 2020
superawesomekt
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it was amazing
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middle-east
This was perfect.
Jan 22, 2019
Kara
marked it as to-read
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diverse-kids-books
Feb 08, 2019
Kara
marked it as to-read
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