Wishing upon the same stars, Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
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Wishing upon the same stars, Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
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Wishing upon the same stars
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electronic resource
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Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
Summary
Perfect for fans of Other Words for Home, Front Desk, and American as Paneer Pie, this powerful and poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows an Arab American girl named Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendship-and herself. When twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury moves with her family to San Antonio, all she wants to do is fit in. But her classmates in Texas are nothing like her friends in the predominantly Arab neighborhood back in Detroit where she grew up. Almost immediately, Yasmeen feels like the odd girl out, and as she faces middle school mean girls and tries to make new friends, she feels more alone than ever before. Then Yasmeen meets her neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, a first-generation Israeli American. As the two girls grow closer, Yasmeen is grateful to know someone who understands what it feels like when your parents' idea of home is half a world away. But when Yasmeen's grandmother moves in after her home in Jerusalem is destroyed, Yasmeen and Ayelet must grapple with how much closer the events of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are than they'd realized. As Yasmeen begins to develop her own understandings of home, heritage, and most importantly, herself, can the two girls learn there's more that brings them together than might tear them apart . . . and that peace begins with them?
Target audience
juvenile
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Creator
Subject
- Ethnic attitudes -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Juvenile fiction
- San Antonio (Tex.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Electronic books
- Syriac Christians -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Juvenile fiction
- Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
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- Contributor1
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- Ethnic attitudes -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Juvenile fiction
- San Antonio (Tex.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Electronic books
- Syriac Christians -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Juvenile fiction
- Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Content1
- Author1