Other Words for Home
Jasmine Warga, Vaneh Assadourian
Readers rate it 4.6 (66 on Hardcover)
358 pages · Released 2019 · HarperCollins Publishers
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This Newbery Honor novel tells the story of a Syrian girl and her family immigrating to America, addressing displacement and cultural transition with emotional depth and ultimately hope. The book handles serious themes like war and displacement sensitively through the eyes of a child narrator in verse. It emphasizes resilience, family bonds, and finding home while building empathy for refugee experiences.
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As Jude weaves her way through a journey of being an immigrant, her pregnant mother, and leaving all she has ever known behind. As she discovers america, "What will happen to Issa? And Babi?" Read to find out what happens to precious Jude and her family. As Jude weaves her way through a journey of being an immigrant, her pregnant mother, and leaving all she has ever known behind. As she discovers america, "What will happen to Issa? And Babi?" Read to find out what happens to precious Jude and her family.
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- Juvenile Fiction
- Immigrants
- Syria
- Newbery Honor
- nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2020-07-19
- New York Times bestseller
- Halloween, fiction
- Children's fiction
- Emigration and immigration, fiction
- Refugee children
- Emigration and immigration
- Syrians
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ISBN 9780062747822 · HarperCollins Publishers