Other Words for Home, Jasmine Warga
Other Words for Home, Jasmine Warga
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Other Words for Home

Author: Jasmine Warga

Narrator: Vaneh Assadourian

Unabridged: 3 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Storytide

Published: 05/28/2019


Synopsis

New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book!
A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives.At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. 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.But 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. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is.This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself.

About Jasmine Warga

Jasmine Warga is the New York Times bestselling author of Other Words for Home, a Newbery Honor Book and a Walter Honor Book for Younger Readers; The Shape of Thunder; and A Rover’s Story. Her teen books, Here We Are Now and My Heart and Other Black Holes, have been translated into over twenty-five languages. She lives in the Chicago area with her family. You can visit Jasmine online at jasminewarga.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lala on June 25, 2019

Perfection......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on February 19, 2022

The story is told from the perspective of Jude who had to leave Syria with her mother to America due to the uncertain situation rising up in her hometown, leaving her father, older brother, her best friend and her relatives behind. The themes handled in this book are coming of age; family bond; and m......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on August 17, 2020

This was so, so good.......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on September 01, 2020

This was such a beautifully-told story about a young girl forced to move to America with her mother from Syria during uncertain unrest. Leaving behind her father and brother, Jude tries to fit in at the American school she has gone to. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.......more

Goodreads review by laura on May 29, 2019

I guess dinner tonight will be seasoned with my tears......more