02816cam a2200433 i 4500 623711930 TxAuBib 20201222120000.0 200217s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781773214399 softcover 177321439X softcover 9781773214405 hardcover 1773214403 hardcover (OCoLC)1140681014 NLC NLC eng eng rda rda rda YDX rda NLC YDX BDX OI6 IH9 UKMGB OCLCO GZD TxAuBib NLC BDX OI6 IH9 UKMGB OCLCO GZD TxAuBib rda Saeed, Jamal, 1959-, author. Yara's Spring / By Jamal Saeed & Sharon E. McKay. Toronto : Annick Press, [2020] 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can't speak--struck silent by everything he's seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen's charismatic brother, Ali, Yara must try to find a way to safety. With danger around every corner, Yara is pushed to her limits as she discovers how far she'll go for her loved ones--and for a chance for freedom. -- Crafted through the focused lens of Jamal Saeed's own experiences in Syria and brought to life with acclaimed author Sharon E. McKay, Yara's Spring is a story of coming of age against all odds and the many kinds of love that bloom even in the face of war. Black-and-white interior drawings by award-winning illustrator Nahid Kazemi lend vivid detail to the novel. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. 620L Lexile. Decoding demand: 95 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 86 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile. Lexile 620L. Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.3 10 509238. 20201222. Refugees Juvenile fiction. Girls Juvenile fiction. Survival Fiction. Children and war Juvenile fiction. Jordan Juvenile fiction. Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. lcgft Fiction. lcgft McKay, Sharon E., author. TXKPL