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19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

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By Naomi Shihab Nye
Publisher Greenwillow Books
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
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EMTell me how to live so many lives at once .../em Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at the party; Baba Kamalyari, age 71; Mr. Dajani and his swans; Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside. EMMaybe they have something to tell us./em Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being ArabAmerican, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life. These new and collected poems of the Middle East sixty in all appear together here for the first time.

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13050 words13,050 words
142 pages142 pages
Lexile 910LLexile 910L
Grade 4 to 6Grade 4 to 6
Published 2002Published 2002

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