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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F FEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
