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Flying over water / by Shannon Hitchcock and N.H. Senzai.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2022]; �2020Description: 246 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781338617672
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.S47953 Fl 2022
Summary: Twelve-year-old Noura and her family, fleeing war in Syria, have been granted asylum in the United States, but they arrive in Florida to the chaos of the president's Muslim ban; twelve-year-old Jordyn is a member of the Christian church that is sponsoring the Alwan family, and Noura's student ambassador in middle school; their inevitable culture clash is made far worse by the wave of hate crimes unleashed by the Muslim ban, and personal problems of both girls--Noura's fear of water (Jordyn is a champion swimmer) and Jordyn's worry over her mother's recent miscarriage.
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Twelve-year-old Noura and her family, fleeing war in Syria, have been granted asylum in the United States, but they arrive in Florida to the chaos of the president's Muslim ban; twelve-year-old Jordyn is a member of the Christian church that is sponsoring the Alwan family, and Noura's student ambassador in middle school; their inevitable culture clash is made far worse by the wave of hate crimes unleashed by the Muslim ban, and personal problems of both girls--Noura's fear of water (Jordyn is a champion swimmer) and Jordyn's worry over her mother's recent miscarriage.

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Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.4 7.0 509693. BR