Sitti's Secrets - by Naomi Shihab Nye (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The editor of The Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World now presents a richly layered story of an Arab-American girl who travels wit h her father to the Middle East to visit her grandmother for the first time. Illustrated with full-color, multimedia art throughout. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Mona's grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her. <p/>The couldn't speak each other's language, so they made up their own. They learned about each other's worlds, and they discovered each other's secrets. Then it was time for Mona to go back home, back to the other side of the earth. But even though there were millions of miles and millions of people between them, they remained true neighbors forever.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared widely. She edited the ALA Notable international poetry collection, <i>This Same Sky, </i>and <i>The Tree Is Older Than You Are: Poems and Paintings from Mexico</i>, as well as <i>The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East</i>. Her books of poems include <i>Fuel</i>, <i>Red Suitcase</i>, and <i>Words Under the Words</i>. A Guggenheim fellow, she is also the author of the young adult novel <i>Habibi</i>, which was named an ALA Notable Book, a Best Book for Young Adults, and winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award as well as the Book Publishers of Texas award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Naomi lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Michael, and their son, Madison. <p/>Nancy Carpenter is the acclaimed illustrator of <i>Thomas Jefferson and the Mammoth Hunt</i>, <i>Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine</i>, <i>Fannie in the Kitchen</i>, and <i>Loud Emily</i>, among other books. Her works have garnered many honors, including two Christopher Awards and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at NancyCarpenter.website.
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