Where the Streets Had a Name
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781743110690 (1743110693)
Publish date: May 28th 2012
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Novels,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
Family,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Islam
I think this book suffered a little from the tyranny of high expectations, for me. I loved Abdel-Fattah's other books, but I felt this one struggled just a little to find an engaging voice. It felt a bit too much like a deliberately-written schoolbook ("a Palestinian Muslim, a Christian, and two Jew...
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I really admire Abdel-Fattah for addressing a topic as sensitive as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a children’s book, and doing it in a remarkably non-preachy way. Her main character is Palestinian, as I’m assuming she also is, so she naturally shows a pro-Palestinian bias. But I almost never f...
This tale, told pretty much through the eyes and experiences of a 13 year old Palestinian child named Hayaat, is tender, tragic and humorous all at the same time. It seeks to illuminate the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in a gentle and largely non-confrontational way. It is told in simpl...
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