num_pages: 142
description: "Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..." Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at the party; Baba Kamalyari, age 71; Mr. Dajani and his swans; Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside. Maybe they have something to tell us. Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being Arab-American, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life. These new and collected poems of the Middle East -- sixty in all -- appear together here for the first time.
language: English
title: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
titlecomplete: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Female Authors, Religion, War, Poetry, Anthologies, Cultural, Family
ratings_count: 1394
places: Palestine
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Young People's Literature
publisher: Greenwillow Books