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Habibi

By: Naomi Shihab Nye
Narrated by: Christina Moore
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For 14-year-old Liyana Abboud, life in St. Louis, Missouri is perfect. She loves shopping in the nearby stores and walking down streets where she knows everyone. Even better, she has just had her first kiss. But her father is moving the family to Jerusalem - the land where he was born.

Suddenly Liyana finds herself a stranger in a threatening world. Shopkeepers bargain in odd-sounding languages, soldiers roam the neighborhoods with guns, and kissing in public can be downright dangerous. At home with her family she is still Habibi - Precious. But to everyone else, she is only a half-American, half-Arab nobody. As the days stretch into months, Liyana wonders if she will ever find a place in her father's mixed-up homeland.

Naomi Shihab Nye's richly poetic prose won a Jane Addams Book Award and was an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists." Christina Moore's moving performance will make listeners laugh and cry - and view the world from a whole new perspective.

©1997 Naomi Shihab Nye (P)1999 Recorded Books, LLC
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Habibi

I really enjoyed Liana as a character, and I love all the little things and details about the world that she thought about. This was so much fun to read, would definitely recommend.

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Very good but not for young children
Teaches you a little bit about How kids feel after moving to another area

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Excellent short book.

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys stories about teenagers, love, romance, and the exploration of another country from the eyes of the teenager and her family.

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Realistic musing of teen growing up and exploring ideas—if you are a very bright teen.

I disliked most that the story ended. Wished I could stay with this family longer. Recommend this story to anyone growing up like I am at age 76.

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Very good Performance

Very good performance. However, Arabic words and phrases were misspelt. Good story by Nye. It was very entertaining and brilliant

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Habibi

This is only a sample of the book. Bought book, where is the rest of the book?

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Terrible narration

As usual, the publishers have hired someone who has no clue how to pronounce any Arabic to narrate a book about Arabs. Listening to this was like nails on a chalkboard for me. The narrator butchered the names of people and places, the Arabic words for foods, and even the simplest word for grandmother (siti). She didn’t even make a minimal effort to get any of it right. I could barely focus on the story because of how awful the narration was.

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it was ok but the story sucked

the story was horible but the narrator was perfect they were easy to understand and they sounded like liliana was reading the book herself

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