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Silverworld

Desperate to help her ailing grandmother, Sami consults Sitti's spell book and falls into the magical Silverworld, where she must try to save the enchanted city and, perhaps, Sitti, too.

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Main Author:	Abu-Jaber, Diana (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Magic > Juvenile fiction. Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction. Sick > Juvenile fiction. Lebanese Americans > Juvenile fiction. Children's stories. Fantasy fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:	Desperate to help her ailing grandmother, Sami consults Sitti's spell book and falls into the magical Silverworld, where she must try to save the enchanted city and, perhaps, Sitti, too.
Physical Description:	291 pages ; 22 cm
Audience:	Ages 8-12. Grades 4-6.
ISBN:	9780553509670 0553509675 9780553509687 0553509683
Author Notes:	Diana Abu-Jaber is most recently the author of Birds of Paradise, an Indie Books Pick, as well as the award-winning memoir The Language of Baklava and the bestselling novels Origin and Crescent, which were awarded the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the American Book Award. Her first novel, Arabian Jazz, won the Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Silverworld is Diana's first novel for children and started as a tale she told to entertain her young niece while vacationing in a condo lined with mirrors! A frequent contributor to NPR, she teaches at Portland State University and divides her time between Portland and Miami. Find her online at @dabujaber or on her website dianaabujaber.com.