Novel in verse wins award

Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi received the 2024 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, a prestigious honor in book publishing. The middle-grade novel is written in verse and tells the coming-of-age story of a seventh-grade Syrian American boy who is trying to balance school and family. When accepting the award, Safadi—a middle school teacher who immigrated to the US from Syria as a child—thanked her parents as well as Muslim authors who came before her.…

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