![]() ![]() She misses how things were before Parker did the worst thing a person can do. She misses who Parker was before he started isolating himself in his room, spending all of his time on his computer, and saying awful things about people like Cora’s family. Quinn misses Cora, and she misses her big brother, Parker. Cora misses her former best friend, Quinn, too, but can’t admit it to herself. As the one-year anniversary approaches, the pain only seems to get worse. Last November, though, Mabel was killed in a school shooting, and twelve-year-old Cora is still learning how to live with her grief and fear. ![]() Mabel was her best friend and the only other person in their small Ohio town who understood what it was like to be a child of the only Muslim immigrants around. Warga’s latest, The Shape of Thunder, too, gives an honest, if painful, reflection of American culture that is deserving of 2021’s Newbery Award.Ĭora misses her big sister Mabel terribly. ![]() Jasmine Warga’s Other Words for Homereceived a Newbery Honor in 2020 for its honest, moving portrayal of the experiences of a young Syrian refugee whose outside perspective provides reflections of not just the Syrian civil war, but American culture. Book review: The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga (J fiction) ![]()
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