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Published date: 4 March 2021 09:17 UTC
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Last update: 4 weeks ago
In my home, reading is part of our culture. I gather with my children most evenings to spend time quietly reading together, as an answer to the virtual schooling, video gaming, football watching daytime activities.
I’ve always been proud that my children love books, but four years ago, I encountered a small crisis: my daughter was frustrated.
She told me she wished she had books that featured an Arab girl as the main character. I promptly handed her Naomi Shihab Nye’s 1999 novel,
Habibi, which is about a Palestinian American girl, living in St Louis, who experiences a culture shock when her father decides to move the family back to Palestine. ....

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