other words for home by jasmine warga pdf

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. The Shape of Thunder is a deeply moving story, told with exceptional grace, about friendship and loss-and how believing in impossible things can help us heal.A gorgeously written, hopeful middle-grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the US, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. But as they attempt to unravel the mysteries of time travel to save their siblings, they learn that the magic of their friendship may actually be the key to saving themselves. And so the two former friends begin working together to open a wormhole in the fabric of the universe. In spite of herself, Cora wants to believe. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment before her brother changed all their lives forever-and stop him. On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note.

But I also liked that there was good in her experiences too. In America, she deals with prejudice and the hostility that people who are different in any way often face. Jude is an astute character, deeply observant of the world around her. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. Warga’s writing in Other Words for Home, is lyrical. An extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor–winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing-and how friendship can be magical.Ĭora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.ĭespite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief.

Other words for home by jasmine warga pdf