Sitti's Secrets

By Naomi Shihab Nye

Subjects: Children's literature, Palestinian Arabs, Grandmothers, Family life, fiction, Grandparents, Multigenerational, Family, Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction

Description: When Mona travels from her home in the U.S. to visit her grandmother's small Palestinian village on the West Bank, she must rely on her father to translate at first, but soon she and Sitti are communicating perfectly without words. In the end this story is about the connections and bonds that transcend time, culture, and language.