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Figs and Fate
Stories about Growing Up in the Arab World Today
By Marston, Elsa
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80761-551-5 978-0-80761-554-6
- Publisher
- George Braziller
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2005
Gr 5-8 An enjoyable and often surprising collection of stories about Arab teenagers living in modern-day Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iraq. Like Marston's nonfiction title "Women in the Middle East: Tradition and Change" (Scholastic, 1996), these stories dispel many stereotypes about this part of the world. The young people are facing some specifically Middle Eastern issues such as the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2005
Each of the five stories in this collection is set in a different part of the Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and a Palestinian refugee camp) and features contemporary protagonists dealing with a "complicated, baffling world." Egyptian Rania deals with her mother's disapproval of a friend she makes who is from a lower caste; Syrian Suhay...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
