![]() ![]() ![]() The writing is as gorgeous as the cover, but is also hilarious and so descriptive that you’ll actually cringe reading lines like: ![]() Yet, you still get SO much out of them, and Other Words for Home is a perfect example of that. For readers who might struggle a bit, the short lines are a godsend. You get a little bit of the poetic element in the writing style and format, but still the fairly clear language and imagery. Maybe even used as a class read!” That, and that I should recommend it to Clarissa!Ī novel in verse is so approachable. One thing I kept thinking was “I definitely have to have this in my classroom. 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. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives.Īt first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. Gorgeous cover to match the writing inside ♥ ![]()
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