'Other Words For Home' Is A Middle-Grade Immigrant Story That Adult Readers Will Enjoy, Too

It’s been a while since I scoured the middle-grade section of my local bookstore for a good read. But there’s something about summer that puts me in the mood for that genre, like a kid jockeying for prizes in the library’s summer reading program. Other Words for Home is a middle-grade debut from Jasmine Warga, and it’s well worth checking out—even for grownups. It’s the story of Jude, a young girl living in a tourist town on the coastline of Syria. When the Arab Spring erupts, she leaves her