| The Lemon Tree (Young Readers' Edition): An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East Contributor(s): Tolan, Sandy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1547607564 ISBN-13: 9781547607563 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2026 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its street date of May 11, 2026 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Middle East - Juvenile Nonfiction | Religion - Judaism - Juvenile Nonfiction | Religion - Islam |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 192 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |