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Title Balcony on the moon : coming of age in Palestine / Ibtisam Barakat.

Publication Info.

New York : Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PHS Non-Fiction	956.95 BARAKAT	---	Available

Edition	First edition.
Description	217 pages : map ; 22 cm
	text rdacontent
	unmediated rdamedia
	volume rdacarrier
Study Program	MG+ RL 6.5 9.0 185633
Note	"An earlier version of the chapter "Stone House" was published as "Radio Street" by The Massachusetts Review in 2014."
Indexed In:	Junior Library Guild
Summary	Balcony on the Moon follows Ibtisam Barakat through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972-1981 and chronicles her desire to be a writer.
Audience	Ages 14 & up.
	Grades 9 & up.
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject	Memoir.
	Barakat, Ibtisam -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
	Barakat, Ibtisam -- Childhood and youth.
	Barakat, Ibtisam -- Childhood and youth.
	Arab-Israeli conflict -- Juvenile literature.
	Children, Palestinian Arab -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Girls -- Education -- Arab countries -- Juvenile literature.
	Youth, Palestinian Arab -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Arab-Israeli conflict.
	Children, Palestinian Arab -- Biography.
	Girls -- Education -- Arab countries.
	Youth, Palestinian Arab -- Biography.
	Arab-Israeli conflict.
	Children, Palestinian Arab -- Biography.
	Girls -- Education -- Arab countries.
	Youth, Palestinian Arab -- Biography.
	Israel -- History1967-1993 -- Juvenile literature.
	Palestine -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Israel -- History1967-1993.
	Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
	Israel -- History1967-1993.
	Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN	9780374302511 (hardcover)