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Amazing book that deals so beautifully with Jude, a Syrian girl who comes to the US with her mother while her brother and father stay behind as the war escalates. So many things to rave about this book: the EAL classroom where she feels most at home, the way she is treated when she decides to wear hijab, the American cousin who shuns her for most of the book, the boy in her math class who truly sees her--it's so well done and I found myself crying often in the book bc it was written so tenderly
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Cannot wait to introduce Jude and her loving Syrian family to my Grade 6 Newbery Reading Challenge readers next week and share excerpts and poems from this immersive, bittersweet coming of age Novel in Verse. I am from Ohio and spent a lot of time in college traveling from Oxford up the road at Miami University to the Clifton neighborhood near the University of Cincinnati campus. Stately homes like Jude's Uncle's house on tree-lined streets, running over to funky restaurants and shops like her f
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Novel in verse. This is the story of a middle grade girl, Jude, who moves from Syria to the US and slowly acclimates to a new life. This doesn't have the majorly scary aspects of refugee travel - it's more about her internal journey to adjust, live in a relative's home, figure out English and so forth.
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An excellent middle grade read. Very much like the protagonist and her strength. Slightly reminiscent of "George" in that it's also set around a school play.
Also liked the fact that it bucked the "poor" immigrant without resources meme making it more relatable to my school's reality. ...more
Also liked the fact that it bucked the "poor" immigrant without resources meme making it more relatable to my school's reality. ...more
This is a poetic narrative about a young girl and her mother, who move from Syria to Cincinnati to live with her uncle’s family. Jude is sorting out her new world while wondering about her family she left behind. It’s a beautiful book.
Nov 25, 2021
Erin
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Jul 12, 2019
Angela
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Oct 18, 2018
Mary E Lawson
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