Sale price
$799
I Love Saturdays y domingos
Ages 5–8 · 1999
Bookroo's summary
Mona visits her grandmother in a distant Palestinian village. Despite a language barrier, they create their own way to communicate, uncovering secrets and forming an unbreakable bond. Can distance truly separate them?
From the publisher
A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance. Mona’s grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her. The couldn’t speak each other’s language, so they made up their own. They learned about each other’s worlds, and they discovered each other’s secrets. Then it was time for Mona to go back home, back to the other side of the earth. But even though there were millions of miles and millions of people between them, they remained true neighbors forever.
At a glance
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 32
- Words
- 1,215
- Reading age
- 5–8
- Audience
- Picture
- Lexile
- AD650L
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