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Summary:

"In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father's spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing, and it isn't long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a stray shell destroys Nour's house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety--along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world"--Amazon.com.

Author/Creator:

Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The map of salt and stars [by Joukhadar, J.Z.]

Subjects:

Refugee children — Syria — Fiction

Refugees — Syria — Fiction

Moving, Household — Fiction

Fathers — Death — Fiction

Homs (Syria) — Fiction

Syria — History — Civil War, 2011- — Fiction

Cartographers — Fiction

Syrian Civil War (Syria : 2011- )

Since 2011

Moving, Household

Fathers — Death

Fathers

Refugee children

Cartographers

Refugees

Syria — Homs

Syria

Genres:

Historical fiction

Fiction

History

General Notes:

Maps on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references.

Audience:

Children

Physical Description:

360 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

JFic J87ma

ISBNs:

9781501169038 (hardcover)
1501169033 (hardcover)
9781501169052 (paperback)
150116905X (paperback)
9781501169106 (ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017029991

OCLC Numbers:

1001251122