When she finally joins her father and brothers in their new home in Switzerland, a twelve-year-old Turkish girl encounters the tremendous difficulty of living in a foreign country without knowing the language and customs.
Related: Europe, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Switzerland, Turkey
- ISBN: 9780374324827
- Author: Hicyilmaz, Gaye
- Published: 1994, Farrar Straus & Giroux (J)
- Themes: cross cultural, Friendship, immigrant, language learning
- Descriptors: Europe, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Switzerland, Turkey
- No. of pages: 325