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Happy Monday TMS Readers and welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful spring break. Middle Grade Monday features Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga. Jude lives in a seaside town in Syria with her parents, beloved grandmother and older brother, Issa. She dreams of becoming a movie star, but the war is coming close and Issa longs to join the resistance in Aleppo. Jude's pregnant mother wishes to flee Syria, but her father refuses to leave.
This emotionally resonant story is told in first-person blank verse in five parts. Readers follow Jude's journey from Syria to Cincinnati, where she and her mother go to live with her uncle, who is a medical doctor and his family. His daughter, Sarah is not at all pleased and Jude wonders how she will ever fit in.
Other Words for Home was named a Newbery Honor, an SLJ Best Book and an ALA Notable Book. It belongs in every school, public, and classroom library. Highly recommended.
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