Author: Lynne Reid Banks Year: 1973 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Young adult Culture: Israel
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ISBNs: 9780380715633 9780688108939 0380715635 0688108938 |
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Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then her father makes a fateful decision, the whole family is going to emigrate to Israel and lead a more fully Jewish life. Lesley is horrified and very resistant. However, once she gets to her new country and a very different life, she begins to find it stimulating and enjoyable. A strange relationship with Palestinian boy Mustafa, who lives on the other side of the Jordan river, is a big part of the new Lesley. A very exciting book, set in the 1960s about life in a pioneering new country.
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