Thank you for reading Tasting the Sky, a Palestinian Childhood. Tasting the Sky, Ibtisam Barakat's childhood memoir, is winner of more than 20 awards and honors, including the International Reading Association's Best Non-Fiction for YA (2008), IRA teachers Choice Award, IRA Book for a Global Society; Middle East Council Best Literature Book Award (2007), USBBY Outstanding International Book, Arab-American National Museum Book Award for YA and children; Cybils (Bloggers) Best Non-Ficiton for YA and Children Book Award,and it is an American Library Association Notable Book and New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Tasting the Sky is now available in several languages. Currently, Ibtisam is working on a sequel for Tasting the Sky, to continue the story through the years of adolescence. In progress also is a book of poems.