Wishing upon the same stars
Call Number
- J FELD (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Physical Description
360 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 4-6. Harper.
Summary
Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these friendships, especially from her Palestinian father, a native of Jerusalem--more than anything Yasmeen just wants to be American but it seems like she can not escape the ethnic tensions that swirl around her.
Subjects
- Syriac Christians > Juvenile fiction.
- Arab Americans > Juvenile fiction.
- Moving, Household > Juvenile fiction.
- Ethnic attitudes > Texas > Juvenile fiction.
- Ethnic relations > Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > Texas > Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
- Arab Americans > Fiction.
- Moving, Household > Fiction.
- Ethnic relations > Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
- Family life > Texas > Fiction.
- Friendship > Fiction.
- San Antonio (Tex.) > Juvenile fiction.
- San Antonio (Tex.) > Fiction.