The Lemon Tree (Young Readers' Edition): An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East - Hardcover

Tolan, Sandy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1547603941 ISBN 13: 9781547603947

Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens Books, 2020

Synopsis

The tale of friendship between two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. “Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible.”--School Library Journal In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and his family had been forced to leave nineteen years earlier. When he arrived, he was greeted by one of its new residents: Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student whose family had fled Europe following the Holocaust. She had lived in that house since she was eleven months old. On the stoop of this shared house, Dalia and Bashir began a surprising friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and later tested as political tensions ran high and Israelis and Palestinians each asserted their own right to live on this land. Adapted from the award-winning adult book and based on Sandy Tolan’s extensive research and reporting, The Lemon Tree is a deeply personal story of two people seeking hope, transformation, and home.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1547603941
• ISBN 13: 9781547603947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208