Habibi

When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud and her family move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.

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  1. By WOW Currents » Windows on the World — Part 2 on January 24, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    [...] novels written mostly about young adolescents, living in the Palestinian/Israeli territory. Habibi (meaning darling in Arabic) by Naomi Shihad Nye, recounts the story of an American/Arab teenager, [...]