Year Published: 2006
Publisher: Flux
ISBN: 0738709611
Pages: 234
Classification: Fiction
Interest Level: 7-12
Reading Level: 4
Subjects: Family, Father-daughter relationship, Jews, Israel, Fiction
Reader's Annotation: When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Israel for a three-month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life.
Summary: Amy Nelson is a stereotypical spoiled American teen who has stereotypical plans for her summer vacation: shopping, friends, boyfriend. Suddenly,her long-absent father calls to inform her that the grandmother whom she has never met is ill and that Amy needs to go to Israel to meet her.They travel to Israel and goes through a culture shock. She shares a room with a cousin who hates her for being a spoiled American, lusting after a brooding older boy on the verge of his mandatory military service, and learning more than she ever thought possible about her faith, her family, their history, and their present. Amy gets a new perspective of her father, her culture, life and boys.
Author Website: www.simoneelkeles.net
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