![]() ![]() She now lives in the Chicago area with her family. Jasmine currently teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her next novel, A Rover’s Story, will be out in Fall 2022. The Shape of Thunder, her most recent book for middle grade readers, is a Junior Library Guild selection and Indie Next List Summer 2021 pick. ![]() Warga is also the author of young adult books, My Heart and Other Black Holes and Here We Are Now, which have been translated into over twenty different languages. Give me a story that speaks - that tells us to speak, to speak up! To speak loudly!” Give me a story with a love of life and a love of joy. “About seeing others clearly as you learn to see yourself clearly. “Give me a story about imperfect, loving families,” writes Jessia P. Other Words For Home earned multiple awards, including a John Newbery Honor, a Walter Honor for Young Readers, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. In simple, lyrical verse, Jude tells the story of how she came from there to here, a journey of self-revelation that leads her to a most unlikely place: center stage in the school musical. Meet Jude, the 12-year-old daughter of a Syrian refugee family finding their way in a new life in the Queen City. Our last Freedom Friends Book Club pick of 2021 is Other Words for Home, the award-winning bestseller by Cincinnati native Jasmine Warga. ![]()
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