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Indlæser... Wishing Upon the Same Starsaf Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Ohmygosh this never made it to my Goodreads!!! I absolutely adore WISHING UPON THE SAME STARS and recommend this sweet middle grade novel to both middle-graders and adults alike (a lot of adults have been told about this book due to the lack of young teens in my life, oops.) Super heartwarming, incredible gorgeous writing, and very deft handling of a very nuanced topic. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD GOLD STANDARD SELECTION! Perfect for fans of Other Words for Home, Front Desk, and American as Paneer Pie, this powerful and poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows an Arab American girl named Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendshipâ??and herself. When twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury moves with her family to San Antonio, all she wants to do is fit in. But her classmates in Texas are nothing like her friends in the predominantly Arab neighborhood back in Detroit where she grew up. Almost immediately, Yasmeen feels like the odd girl out, and as she faces middle school mean girls and tries to make new friends, she feels more alone than ever before. Then Yasmeen meets her neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, a first-generation Israeli American. As the two girls grow closer, Yasmeen is grateful to know someone who understands what it feels like when your parents' idea of home is half a world away. But when Yasmeen's grandmother moves in after her home in Jerusalem is destroyed, Yasmeen and Ayelet must grapple with how much closer the events of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are than they'd realized. As Yasmeen begins to develop her own understandings of home, heritage, and most importantly, herself, can the two girls learn there's more that brings them together than might tear them apart . . . and that peace begins with them? Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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Quotes
...but I still don't understand. Other than Native people who've always lived here, didn't everone in America's family come from somewhere else once? (21)
...no one has noticed that I'm miserable, that this move is an exciting adventure for everyone but me. (35)
Logic problem, p. 118-119
...where my family's from has everything to do with me, and at the same time, it has nothing to do with me. (143)
Finally, I've had enough of her not noticing how I feel. I've had enough of her making choices for me without even asking. (159)
"Real friends stand up for what's right if something bad is happening. They always have your back." (Ayelet to Yasmeen, 225)
How can two people standing in the same place see something so differently? How can history be different depending on who you ask? (234)
The only problem is - what I think is right and what my parents think is right seem like two different things. (252)
"Your culture makes you who you are." (Carlos to Yasmeen, 262)
Every wave of violence closes my family's hearts tighter and tighter. (282)
Maybe it doesn't matter what language you dream in, after all. Maybe it's only important that you dream. (317)
...I understand: sadness is sadness and loss is loss. They're the same for everyone, no matter how or where they happen. (322)
"Maybe peace will begin here, with us." (336)
...maybe words that hurt always matter. (343)
I've learned a lot about second chances...for them to work, someone has to be brave enough to give them, but someone has to be brave enough to accept them, too. (347)
Maybe things that seem too different or too much the same at first start to come together after a while, if only you look a little closer. (351) ( )