The Lemon Tree (Young Readers' Edition): An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781547603947)

In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and his family had been forced to leave nineteen years earlier. When he arrived, he was greeted by one of its new residents: Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student whose family had fled Europe following the Holocaust. She had lived in that house since she was eleven months old.
On the stoop of this shared house, Dalia and Bashir began a surprising friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and later tested as political tensions ran high and Israelis and Palestinians each asserted their own right to live on this land. Adapted from the award-winning adult book and based on Sandy Tolan's extensive research and reporting, The Lemon Tree is a deeply personal story of two people seeking hope, transformation, and home.

Author: Sandy Tolan
ISBN-10: 1547603941
ISBN-13: 9781547603947
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.6
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 510590 / Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East (Young Readers' Edition)


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2020
Booklist 09/01/2020 pg. 82
School Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 86