Habibi
About this book
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. Fourteen-year-old Liyana Abboud loves to hear her father call her habibi--Arabic for "darling". But she's not prepared for her family's decision to move from St. Louis to Jerusalem. This provocative first novel from the acclaimed poet builds a bridge to the Arab world, introduces a family readers won't soon forget, and offers a hope for peace.
Subjects
- children's fiction
- emigration and immigration
- emigration and immigration, fiction
- families
- family life
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- immigration and emigration
- jerusalem, fiction
- jewish-arab relations
- juvenile fiction
- reading level-grade 6
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8