Other words for home novel5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Seeing how she feels about the father and brother she’s left behind, how she feels about her American family she is meeting for the first time, and how she feels about struggling to find her identity as a young women but also as a Muslim living in America. ![]() Jude is a 7th grader who has recently immigrated from Syria to America with her mother, and it’s both heartbreaking and eye-opening seeing the world from her perspective. Other Words for Home is a story told in six parts, as we see the character move through the spectrum of Changing, Arriving, Staying, Hoping, Growing, and Living. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. But this life also brings unexpected surprises-there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US-and her new label of “Middle Eastern,” an identity she’s never known before. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. ![]() But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. SUMMARY: Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. This book is a great example of why I love YA lit as well as novels written in verse! But because I am proud and want to seen as I am.” “I cover my head not because I am ashamed, forced, or hiding. ![]()
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