false <![CDATA[Habibi]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172779264m/215693.jpg 215693 5 The day after Liyana got her first real kiss, her life changed forever. Not because of the kiss, but because it was the day her father announced that the family was moving from St. Louis all the way to Palestine. Though her father grew up there, Liyana knows very little about her family's Arab heritage. Her grandmother and the rest of her relatives who live in the West Bank are strangers, and speak a language she can't understand. It isn't until she meets Omer that her homesickness fades. But Omer is Jewish, and their friendship is silently forbidden in this land. How can they make their families understand? And how can Liyana ever learn to call this place home?<P> 3234365 1997 Habibi total:339|5:85|4:117|3:76|2:30|1:31| 339 1212 461 73 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 21:10:26 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 21:17:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Sep 03 15:31:34 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 15:31:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 20:48:45 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 20:52:43 -0800 2009 I never imagined that lips would be warm...

My goodness, why not? It's not as if there were no lips in your life before the symbolic (if pointless) ones on the first page of this book.

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Original review here.

Did people who commited acts of violence think their victims and their victims' relatives would just forget?

Didn't people see? How violence went on and on like a terrible wheel? Could you stand in front of a wheel to make it stop?
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I love Naomi and this book is just fantastic! Maybe it's wrong to do this, but I imagine it as her childhood. Liyana is just how I would think Naomi was when she was growing up. I love the first lines that begin each chapter. Naomi's writing i...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 09:22:19 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 09:40:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 18:39:34 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 19:18:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 15 16:08:59 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 16:11:37 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Sun Mar 15 14:24:29 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 14:28:21 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 04:58:35 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 05:04:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 31 16:46:03 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 16:55:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 19:11:43 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 19:12:56 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 16:46:05 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 16:06:01 -0700 2008 It was awkward, really. It's a book for young teens (10-13), but the material was inappropriate for that age group.
It has to deal mildly with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the book was disjointed. It would fluctuate between subjects, and featured odd pa...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 19 09:22:09 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 09:24:01 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 14:13:34 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 14:14:54 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jul 20 09:44:28 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 09:44:28 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=215693