Wishing Upon the Same Stars
New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 360 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction.
Ethnic attitudes -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Juvenile fiction.
Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Arab Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction.
San Antonio (Tex.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Syriac Christians -- Juvenile fiction.
Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction.
Ethnic attitudes -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Juvenile fiction.
Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Arab Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction.
San Antonio (Tex.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: Ages 8-12.
ISBN:
9780063034389
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C Feldman | Northeast Indoors | Children's Fiction | In |