The author, Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. This young-adult novel called Habibi is somewhat of an autobiographical story of her life as an Arab-American teenager who moves to Jerusalem from the US in the 1990s. Habibi means darling in Arabic and is used by her grandmother in another book Naomi wrote titled Sitti's Secret. Sitti is Arabic for grandmother and Sitti's Secret is a picture book of a young girl going with her dad to visit his family in Palestine. Both of these books won the Jane Addams Children's Peace Book Award. Habibi is a good book and I recommend it because it is fun learning about life in another country by reading someone's personal story.
Habibi
The author, Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. This young-adult novel called Habibi is somewhat of an autobiographical story of her life as an Arab-American teenager who moves to Jerusalem from the US in the 1990s. Habibi means darling in Arabic and is used by her grandmother in another book Naomi wrote titled Sitti's Secret. Sitti is Arabic for grandmother and Sitti's Secret is a picture book of a young girl going with her dad to visit his family in Palestine. Both of these books won the Jane Addams Children's Peace Book Award. Habibi is a good book and I recommend it because it is fun learning about life in another country by reading someone's personal story.
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