Warga, the daughter of a Jordanian father, says she “wrote Jude for my twelve-year-old self, who never saw a brown girl in a book who was proud of her family and where she came from.” Lots of girls-and adults-should be grateful she did. “I am learning how it tastes - / sweet with promise / and bitter with responsibility.” Print Word PDF This section contains 1,750 words (approx. I am learning how to say it / over and over again in English,” Warga writes. Other Words For Home Themes & Motifs Jasmine Warga This Study Guide consists of approximately 27 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Other Words For Home. Jude discovers new friends, an expanded family, and unexpected surprises in a school musical that she bravely auditions for. Mostly, though, this is a book about resilience and hope. Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga is a free verse novel telling the story of 12-year-old Jude who lives with her family on a coastal town in Syria. Fans of Jacqueline Woodson or Kwame Alexander will appreciate its structure and its stark, poetic power. The novel is written in free-verse and deals with some difficult topics, including anti-Arab harassment. Jude struggles to find her identity, wanting so badly to fit in with American classmates but not wanting to forget her home country, language, food or culture. When the Arab Spring erupts, she leaves her father and older brother behind and moves with her mother to Cincinnati to live with relatives. It’s the story of Jude, a young girl living in a tourist town on the coastline of Syria. This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself.Other Words for Home is a middle-grade debut from Jasmine Warga, and it’s well worth checking out-even for grownups. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is.
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.īut 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.
But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives.Īt first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book!Ī 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.
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