She quickly discovered that writing for kids and teens was the perfect combination of her dual interests in storytelling and working with kids.
She briefly taught 6th grade science in Texas before going on to get her MFA in creative writing from Lesley University in Boston. She studied art history and history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Her next novel, A Rover’s Story, will be out on October 4, 2022, and has already earned a starred review from Kirkus. She is also the author of young adult books, My Heart and Other Black Holes and Here We Are Now, which have been translated into over twenty different languages. The Shape of Thunder was a School Library Journal and Bank Street best book of the year, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Children’s and YA Book Award, and has been named to several state award reading lists.
Other Words For Home earned multiple awards, including a John Newbery Honor, a Walter Honor for Young Readers, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself.Jasmine Warga is the New York Times-bestselling author of middle grade novels Other Words For Home and The Shape of Thunder. 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. A gorgeously written, hopeful middle-grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the US, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.
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