- Emigration and immigration, Fiction, Families, Jewish-Arab relations
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
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Earnest, contemporary, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 259
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780689825231
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“Liyana Abboud had just tasted her first kiss when her parents announced they were leaving the country.”
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