Wishing upon the same stars

Feldman, Jacquetta Nammar, author.

First edition.

Book

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.

©2022

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.

Ages 8-12. Harper.

Grades 4-6. Harper.

Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Syriac Christians -- Juvenile fiction.

Arab Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction.

Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.

San Antonio (Tex.) -- Juvenile fiction.

Texas -- Juvenile fiction.

Palatine (Ill.) -- Own voices.

Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC author.

Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC subject.

Palatine (Ill.) -- Own voices.

Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC author.

Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC subject.

Young adult fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Didactic fiction.

Social problem fiction.

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