This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself. Choose a Storyboard That character to represent each of the book characters. Before becoming an author, Warga was a sixth-grade science teacher. Other Words from Home is her first novel for middle grade readers it won mans,' awards, including the prestigious Newbery Honor award. Student Instructions: Identify the main and supporting characters in Other Words for Home and type their names into the different title boxes. Jasmine Warga is a writer who grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. Objective: Create a character map for the characters in Other Words for Home. 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.īut 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. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives.Īt first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. A gorgeously written, hopeful middle-grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the US, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.
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