Sitti secrets by naomi shihab nye biography

Reviewed by Kirin

Review Source:Notes from an Islamic School Librarian
Book Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

(Note: This review was posted on February 2, 2017, just days after a gunman opened fire at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City on January 29.

Six worshippers were killed and five others were seriously injured.)

Sitti’s Secrets was published in 1994 and given the events of the week, I’d say it is more relevant today than it was when written. And if by some chance the events of the week haven’t affected your children, then the poetry and soul of the book still makes it an amazingly powerful story.

Mona travels from America to Palestine to visit her grandma, her Sitti.

Without the ease of speaking the same language, Sitti and Mona learn to communicate and build a tight bond cut too short by a vacation coming to an end. When Mona returns she sees the news and writes a letter to the President, telling her Sitti’s secrets, telling him they woul