Other words for home book cover6/20/2023 Overall, it is appropriate for 8+ but heads up that there is one part where Jude talks about sneaking the movies Practical Magic and Pretty Woman (neither of which would be allowed because of witchcraft and prostitution). For example: Why would tourists stop coming to Jude’s hometown? What happened in Syria? What is Issa trying to say about Bashar al-Assad? Let’s try to infer what some of these Arabic colloquialisms mean without looking them up. Jude, the main character, is a young girl from Syria. From the moment I picked up this verse novel, I was engrossed in the story and the courage of the characters. We ended up reading it together to talk through some aspects of the book. Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga is a book that has melted my heart. Think House on Mango Street… accessible reading but a lot of details and inferences to talk through. She’s an excellent reader, and this book is easy to read in terms of level, but the prose is so spare that it requires a lot of higher level thinking. I read this book with my 8 year and it is so beautiful (I often read ahead because I enjoyed the style so much).
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