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Sitti's Secrets
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Sitti's Secrets Paperback - 1997

by Nye, Naomi Shihab

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When Sitti, an American girl, goes to visit her grandmother in her small Middle Eastern village on the other side of the world, they don't need words to understand each other's heart. Full color.

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Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title Sitti's Secrets
  • Author Nye, Naomi Shihab
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-10-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 748401-75
  • ISBN 9780689817069 / 0689817061
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.18 x 8.74 x 0.1 in (25.86 x 22.20 x 0.25 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Reading level 650
  • Library of Congress subjects Grandmothers, Palestinian Arabs - Israel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93019742
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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First line

My Grandmother lives on the other side of the earth.

About the author

Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared widely. She edited the ALA Notable international poetry collection, This Same Sky, and The Tree Is Older Than You Are: Poems and Paintings from Mexico, as well as The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. Her books of poems include Fuel, Red Suitcase, and Words Under the Words. A Guggenheim fellow, she is also the author of the young adult novel Habibi, which was named an ALA Notable Book, a Best Book for Young Adults, and winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award as well as the Book Publishers of Texas award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Naomi lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Michael, and their son, Madison.

Nancy Carpenter is the acclaimed illustrator of Thomas Jefferson and the Mammoth Hunt, Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine, Fannie in the Kitchen, and Loud Emily, among other books. Her works have garnered many honors, including two Christopher Awards and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at NancyCarpenter.website.