“From start to finish, Warga’s middle-grade debut puts its hands around your heart and holds it, ever so gently, so that you’re aware of your own fragility and resilience-just as Jude is while her life changes drastically from one day to the next…This should find its way into every middle-grade reader’s hands.” - Booklist (starred review)
“This powerful middle grade novel explores the complicated concepts of war and corruption, home, family, belonging, and how, in Jude’s own words, ‘It is strange to feel lucky/for something that is making my heart feel so sad.’” - School Library Journal (starred reviews) “Warga effectively shows, as she writes in an author’s note, that ‘children who are fleeing from a war zone… want the same things all of us do-love, understanding, safety, a chance at happiness.’” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A beautiful, powerful, and necessary book for all readers.” - Aisha Saeed, New York Times bestselling author Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” Anyone who has felt like an outsider will relate to Jude’s hopeful search for belonging. She embodies Jude’s mixed emotions as she struggles gracefully to adjust to her new home and school. “Narrator Vaneh Assadourian’s rich, lilting voice underscores the lyricism of this audiobook spoken in verse…Assadourian switches effortlessly between Arabic accents for Jude and her family, American accents, and varied accents for the other immigrants in Jude’s ESL class. This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. 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.īut 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. 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. New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book!Ī gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.
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