A review by katiecatbooks
Other Words for Home, by Jasmine Warga
5.0
Middle Grade. Syria. Family.
Story: Jude is a young girl living in an oceanside tourist town in Syria. She just wants her family to stay together and be happy, even as her father works at his store and her brother is away more and more with his revolutionary friends. But when Jude and her mother leave for safety to her uncle's house in America, they leave everything she knows behind and Jude is forced to adjust to a new life and grow up with new challenges before her.
Characters: Jude lives with her mother and father and older brother Issa and has a best friend named Fatima.
Language: A novel in verse, it has a very rhythmic feel and pacing, with each chapter only being a few pages or less and pauses between sentences.
A great book that I savored reading over a few days. While a bit rose colored in many places, it's realistic in the things a young girl would go through in a new school, in a new country and with a new family. Wish there were more books like this.
Story: Jude is a young girl living in an oceanside tourist town in Syria. She just wants her family to stay together and be happy, even as her father works at his store and her brother is away more and more with his revolutionary friends. But when Jude and her mother leave for safety to her uncle's house in America, they leave everything she knows behind and Jude is forced to adjust to a new life and grow up with new challenges before her.
Characters: Jude lives with her mother and father and older brother Issa and has a best friend named Fatima.
Language: A novel in verse, it has a very rhythmic feel and pacing, with each chapter only being a few pages or less and pauses between sentences.
A great book that I savored reading over a few days. While a bit rose colored in many places, it's realistic in the things a young girl would go through in a new school, in a new country and with a new family. Wish there were more books like this.