Sitti's Secrets Reprint Edition Contributor(s): Nye, Naomi Shihab (Author), Carpenter, Nancy (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0689817061 ISBN-13: 9780689817069 Publisher: Aladdin Publishing Company (CO)
This item is available now at an even better price in our Bargain Bin! Go There Now! Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 1997 Annotation: When Sitti, an American girl, goes to visit her grandmother in her small Middle Eastern village on the other side of the world, they don't need words to understand each other's heart. Full color. Click for more in this series: Aladdin Picture Books |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Multigenerational - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Middle East |
Dewey: E |
LCCN: 93019742 |
Age Level: 5-8 |
Grade Level: Kindergarten-3 |
Lexile Measure: 650 AD (Adult Directed Text) |
Series: Aladdin Picture Books |
Physical Information: 0.1" H x 8.74" W x 10.18" L (0.32 lbs) 32 pages |
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 18692 Reading Level: 3.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance. Mona's grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her. The couldn't speak each other's language, so they made up their own. They learned about each other's worlds, and they discovered each other's secrets. Then it was time for Mona to go back home, back to the other side of the earth. But even though there were millions of miles and millions of people between them, they remained true neighbors forever. |
Contributor Bio(s): Carpenter, Nancy: - Nancy Carpenter is the acclaimed illustrator of Fannie in the Kitchen, as well as Masai and I, Sitti's Secrets, and Loud Emily, among other books. She lives with her husband, daughter, and cat in Brooklyn, New York.Nye, Naomi Shihab: - Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared widely. She edited the ALA Notable international poetry collection, This Same Sky, and The Tree Is Older Than You Are: Poems and Paintings from Mexico, as well as The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. Her books of poems include Fuel, Red Suitcase, and Words Under the Words. A Guggenheim fellow, she is also the author of the young adult novel Habibi, which was named an ALA Notable Book, a Best Book for Young Adults, and winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award as well as the Book Publishers of Texas award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Naomi lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Michael, and their son, Madison. |
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