Other Words for Home
New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book! A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. 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. But 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. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself.
368 pages, 14 editions
English edition · First published 2019 by HarperCollins · ISBN 9780062747822
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Editions
14 editions
English
- Other Words for Home · HarperCollins · 2019 · ISBN 9780062747822 · 1 reader This page
- Other Words for Home · Balzer + Bray · 2023 · ISBN 9780062747815
- Other Words for Home · HarperCollins Publishers · 2021 · ISBN 9781536467819
- Other Words for Home · Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company · 2020 · ISBN 9781432878962
- Other Words for Home · Scholastic Incorporated · 2020 · ISBN 9781338672275
- Other Words for Home · Scholastic Incorporated · 2020 · ISBN 9781338691085
- Other Words for Home · HarperCollins Canada, Limited · 2019 · ISBN 9781987161649
- Other Words for Home · Turtleback · 2019 · ISBN 9781663631251
- Other Words for Home · HarperCollins · 2019 · ISBN 9781982657369
- Other Words for Home · Balzer + Bray · 2019 · ISBN 9780062938695
- Other Words for Home · Balzer + Bray · 2019 · ISBN 9780063095243
- Other Words for Home · HarperCollins B and Blackstone Audio · 2019 · ISBN 9781982657376
- Other Words for Home · HarperCollins B and Blackstone Audio · 2019 · ISBN 9781982657383
- Other Words for Home · Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers · 2019 · ISBN 9780062747808
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