Wishing Upon the Same Stars
by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
Pub Date 01 Feb 2022
HarperCollins Children's Books, HarperCollins
Children's Fiction | Middle Grade | Multicultural Interest
I am reviewing a copy of Wishing Upon the Same Stars through HarperCollins Children’s Books and Netgalley:
Yasmeen Khoury is twelve when she moves with her family to San Antonio. She just wants to fit in but her classmates in Texas are nothing like her friends in the predominantly Arab neighborhood back in Detroit where she grew up. Almost, immediately Yasmeen feels like the odd girl out as she faces middle school mean girls and tries to make new friends. But after Yasmeen meets her neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, a first-generation Israeli American. The two girls gradually grow closer, and Yasmeen is grateful to know another daughter of immigrants who understands what it feels like when your parents’ idea of home is half a world away.
After Yasmeen grandmother moves in after her home in the West Bank is destroyed, Yasmeen finds her family and Ayelet’s suddenly at odds, forcing them both to grapple with how much closer the events of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict are than they’ve realized. As Yasmeen starts to develop her own understandings of home, heritage, and most importantly, herself, can the two girls learn there’s more that brings them together than might tear them apart, and that peace begins with them?
I give Wishing Upon the Same Stars five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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