by Naomi Shihab Nye (Author)
"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."
Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at the party; Baba Kamalyari, age 71; Mr. Dajani and his swans; Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside.
Maybe they have something to tell us.
Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being Arab-American, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life. These new and collected poems of the Middle East -- sixty in all -- appear together here for the first time.
Number of Pages: 142
Dimensions: 0.44 x 7.26 x 4.95 IN
Publication Date: March 15, 2005
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 2
