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The lemon tree / by Sandy Tolan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, [2020]Edition: Young readers' edDescription: 196 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781547603947
Related works:
  • Adaptation of: Tolan, Sandy. Lemon tree
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Lemon treeDDC classification:
  • 956.9405/092/2 B 23
LOC classification:
  • DS126.6.K5547 T65 2020
Summary: "In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next half century in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, demonstrating that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and transformation"--Provided by publisher.
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Beverly Middle School 920 TOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 705777

Adapted from the author's adult book: The lemon tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-190) and index.

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Kirkus Starred, August 2020

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"In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next half century in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, demonstrating that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and transformation"--Provided by publisher.

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