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Ida in the Middle by Nora Lester Murad
November 22, 2022
Ida in the Middle
by Nora Lester Murad
Interlink Publishing Group
Every time violence erupts in the Middle East, Ida knows what’s coming at her school near Boston. Some of her classmates treat her as if it’s all her fault—just for being Palestinian. In eighth grade, Ida is forced to move to a different school, but people still treat her like she’s a criminal.
One day, wishing she could just disappear, Ida discovers a jar of olives that came from a beloved aunt in her family’s village near Jerusalem. She eats one and finds herself there—as if her parents had never left Palestine! Things are different in her alternate, “what if” reality—harder in many ways, but also strangely familiar and comforting. Now Ida has to make some tough choices. Which Ida would she rather be? Where exactly is home? What does it take to really belong to a people?
Ida’s dilemma becomes more frightening when, in the same week, she has to talk about her life’s passion in front of the whole school and Israeli bulldozers are coming to demolish another home in her family’s village in Palestine…
Summary via Edelweiss (cover pending)