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For every person who doesn't empathise the global refugee crisis or the hate that drives policies to close borders, this book is an center-opener.
For every person that has survived state of war and is trying to find a safety dwelling house for their children, this is a book of hope.
For every person from Edmonton who lives overseas equally an English teacher, this story will bring tears of pride to your eyes. Because Canada knows our responsibility to accept people running from hor
This is not a book. This is an achievement.For every person who doesn't understand the global refugee crisis or the hate that drives policies to close borders, this book is an centre-opener.
For every person that has survived state of war and is trying to detect a safe dwelling house for their children, this is a book of hope.
For every person from Edmonton who lives overseas equally an English language instructor, this story will bring tears of pride to your eyes. Because Canada knows our responsibility to accept people running from horrible circumstances. Also, we take amazing, dedicated teachers who make dreams come true.
Bakr's story has the potential to exist the next bang-up textbook. It is not fiction like Beast Farm. It is not fantasy similar Lord of the Rings. Information technology is autobiographical in the vein of Anne Frank or Malala Yousafzai. It is story of escape, and the world must always strive to create places non simply to escape to, but to eliminate the need to escape from a place at all.
Perhaps in the future, everywhere on world can be home.
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is a charming and warm-hearted book. Information technology is a refugee story like no other.
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hopes of a safer life. They moved to Homs, Syrian arab republic.
Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the ceremonious war bankrupt out on the streets around him. HOMES is his remarkable true story of growing up in a war zone and ultimately finding safety in Canada. With his parent'southward approval, Abu Bakr told h HOMES: A REFUGEE STORY past Abu Bakery Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung
is a charming and warm-hearted volume. Information technology is a refugee story like no other.
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Republic of iraq in hopes of a safer life. They moved to Homs, Syrian arab republic.
Abu Bakr, one of viii children, was ten years old when the civil war bankrupt out on the streets effectually him. HOMES is his remarkable truthful story of growing upward in a war zone and ultimately finding rubber in Canada. With his parent'due south blessing, Abu Bakr told his life's story to high school English teacher, Winnie Yeung in Edmonton. This heartbreaking, hopeful, and middle-opening book is about 1 family'due south journey to find a new dwelling.
This captivating read is short listed for Canada Reads 2019.
4.5 hopeful stars ⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️
** Edited on March 7, 2019
HOMES: A REFUGEE STORY is the offset Canadian book that has been chosen for global digital book club 'Big Library Read'.
Congratulations to Abu Baker Al Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung!
homes is the story of a young boy as he and his family abscond from their home country of republic of iraq to syrian arab republic in endeavor to escape the war. this is one of the well-nigh devastating yet hopeful memoirs i have ever read
abu bakr lays out his life in such a uncomplicated, charming way that is so digestible and then impactful
he speaks about his life in iraq, the move to syria, the smiles and teasings from his father, the bullets and explosions and terrors, working at his father's bakery, waki
!!!!!this book wrecked me!!!!!homes is the story of a young male child as he and his family flee from their home country of iraq to syria in attempt to escape the war. this is one of the virtually devastating all the same hopeful memoirs i have ever read
abu bakr lays out his life in such a simple, charming style that is and then digestible then impactful
he speaks about his life in iraq, the move to syria, the smiles and teasings from his father, the bullets and explosions and terrors, working at his begetter's baker, waking up to the sound of gun shots, running through the streets with his mischievous cousins; he tells his story and the story of and so many other children who had to abound up as well fast bc of a war they had no say in
"When people in the West hear Republic of iraq, they instantly think of Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War. Simply when I remember about my home country, I call back the honey-drenched baklava my aunts gave me, the pinches on my cheeks, appreciating tickles under my chin, and coos of laughter"
reading this book was like watching a movie unfold in front of my eyes. the writing was incredible, it really took the time to set the scene and detail out the mundane events of his life while besides highlighting the trials he had to suffer on a daily basis
in that location were devastating moments, there were moments of panic, there were laughs and smiles and derisive comments, there was honey and brotherhood, their was hurting and loss, and there was hope.
this young boy has experienced and then much in such a short amount of time and his ability to stay positive and happy despite it all made my heart fissure.
"Life must always go along, Bakr. Expiry doesn't thing. Money doesn't matter. Even life itself doesn't thing, son. What matters is living your life with your family, with the people y'all dear. Nosotros love each other, difficult, and hold on tight. What we face up, we face together. Together, we move forward and every picayune happiness we tin can have, we savour. We cannot permit hatred and fear stop us from living."
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For every bit long every bit I tin can call back, there has always been some sort of conflict ongoing in the Eye East. Despite seeing it on the news regularly, I would say that I was pretty apathetic to it all. That isn't to say that I didn't understand the tragic nature of an endless state of war, simply it's hard to comprehend the enormity of it all. Abu Bakr'
Homes is the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, as told to Winnie Yeung, about his family'due south life in both Iraq and Syrian arab republic before moving to Canada as refugees in 2015.For as long every bit I can remember, there has always been some sort of conflict ongoing in the Centre East. Despite seeing it on the news regularly, I would say that I was pretty apathetic to it all. That isn't to say that I didn't understand the tragic nature of an endless state of war, but information technology's hard to comprehend the enormity of it all. Abu Bakr's Homes puts a face and a family to the horrors of daily life halfway effectually the world.
The story begins in Iraq where the Al Rabeeah family unit spends their days dodging the constant threat of violence as expiry seemingly lurks around every corner. Finally, fed upward with a life lived in fright, the family moves to the town of Homs in Syria. Unfortunately, this is just prior to the outbreak of the Syrian Ceremonious War. In an endeavour to observe peace, they leave Homs for Damascus where the violence volition again follow them.
This is an especially heartbreaking read considering the author witnessed all of this horror before even reaching fifteen. There are many moments where the family needs to keep serenity and hunker down when hearing explosions and the staccato beat of automatic gunfire outside their domicile. A few moments subsequently, when the noise ceases, Abu Bakr and his cousins would boot up their PlayStation to play some soccer. It's something I merely tin't imagine dealing with during my childhood – or even now for that affair.
Like Max Eisen's Past Gamble Lonely, books like Homes are more of import now than ever. In an age where people are more than egotistical, self-obsessed and blah, books like Homes are sorely needed, if only for people to develop a sense of empathy for those looking for agreement and a helping hand.
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Stories like this are then necessary, particularly as anti-immigrant sentiments are on the rise in Canada and other countries. The al Rabeeah family just wants what all refugee/im
"How could the God of my gentle begetter be the same God of those crazy fanatics who killed in the name of Islam? I hated those people the nigh. How could they have something and so loving and peaceful and twist it to justify violence and murder? Those people cannot really be Muslim considering my God was near love, peace, charity."Stories like this are so necessary, especially as anti-immigrant sentiments are on the rise in Canada and other countries. The al Rabeeah family unit only wants what all refugee/immigrant families want: safety and the possibility of a better time to come. Homes: A Refugee Story is the story of the al Rabeeah family, as told past ane of their eight children, Abu Bakr. He was only ten years old when violence erupted effectually him, and Homes follows his family through their move from Iraq, to Syria, and eventually to Canada. He witnessed unimaginable horror in the grade of automobile/suicide bombings, attacks and massacres in the streets, at his school, in his mosque, checkpoints manned by power-hungry "soldiers," firebombs and more. Perhaps most striking though, was the way that events of state of war were contrasted with the normalcy of growing upward. For case, I was deeply saddened by the following recollection: "Clutching the garbage pocketbook, I headed towards the park down the street. There, beneath a tree, just a month after my thirteenth birthday, I buried a man's jawbone." This was followed, one folio later, with memories of "…the honey-drenched baklava my aunts gave me, the pinches on my cheeks, appreciating tickles under my chin, and the coos of laughter…" and Bakr oft discusses his childhood spent with his cousins and friends, playing soccer and video games. Homes is an account of adapting to and growing upwards in a war zone, where even the sound of machine guns eventually fades into the background.
When maxim goodbye to his cousins and friends, Bakr promises them that he will tell his story. And he does, with the help of his English as a 2nd Linguistic communication teacher, Winnie Yeung, who listened to his experiences and wrote the volume that I concord today. The story is merely told, and I call back Yeung did a great chore of capturing Bakr's phonation and experience. The voice of a teenager is unique for this type of memoir and made information technology even more moving, only on the other hand, I near wish that Bakr waited to tell his story until he could write more than of it himself, and until he could reverberate more than fully on the events. For example, by the end of the volume, the family is even so relatively new to Canada, with the following quote illustrating one aspect of their difficult adjustment process: "It was a relief to be in a identify costless of the shabiha and snipers, but none of usa had always imagined the solitude we would face. Nosotros had traded the raucous, tearing state of war for a suffocating, serenity safety. No ane could tell which was better, which was worse. Information technology was both and neither." It would take been prissy to see more of their time in Canada, and I hope to be able to hear more about the family in the coming years. I am invested in their story and wellbeing.
It is impossible to read this book without empathizing with the family'southward fright and distress. Homes is a fantastic read for adults and young adults akin – information technology is attainable, educational, and idea-provoking, and information technology provides a very man face to refugees who are oftentimes dehumanized by certain world leaders.
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One function of Bakr'southward story that really stood out to me was the game he played with one of his friends, in which they collected as many bullet casings as they could find in the streets on their walks home from school and tried to out-collect the other. Despite the havoc and carnage the grown-ups were causing, the children constitute a way to still be children. And when Bakr and his little friend realize the reality of the casings, and that the reason they were scattered throughout the streets meant that people had been shot at, and and then it ruins the fun of their game, my heart just broke. The innocence of children being slowly just brutally ripped abroad from them in such a manner is truly heartbreaking.
Just this isn't only moving because of its heartbreaking aspects. Bakr and his family do eventually arrive safely in Canada and begin anew. It merely takes up the last part of the book, and while Bakr and his family piece of work tirelessly to suit, it is heartwarming to read about.
Not but is it a moving volume, it's an accessible book for readers and non-readers akin, young and old, to learn more near the realities of the Syrian ceremonious war and what it means to exist a refugee through ane family unit'due south story as told through the eyes of a child.
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A YA nomenclature would bring this bo
Syrian refugees - we rallied and donated clothes and household items to help families locally become settled, nosotros see new Immigrants on the news grateful to be here - yet we miss their personal stories. This simply written book explains the background we need to be truly empathetic. I'm grateful that the author shared his story, he shone a swell calorie-free on the details of his life, and the universal struggle and hope for rubber and security that comes with Homes.A YA classification would bring this book to many high schoolers, I will encourage my teenager to read information technology.
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Some other reminder that it might well be truthful that Canada is the greatest state in the world. Fifty-fifty with its winters.
Those of us who are lucky enough to accept the luxury of living in peaceful countries may be asking themselves what nosotros can do to help the refugee crisis; I would argue our first job is to listen to their stories in an endeavour to sympathize what they are fleeing from and why. With the number of refugees increasing, we at present have access to fifty-fifty more first person accounts of what it'southward like to have to abscond your own home. Terminal yr I reviewed a work of fictio
All my reviews tin be found on ivereadthis.comThose of us who are lucky enough to take the luxury of living in peaceful countries may be asking themselves what nosotros can do to assist the refugee crisis; I would argue our get-go job is to listen to their stories in an try to empathize what they are fleeing from and why. With the number of refugees increasing, we now have admission to fifty-fifty more than first person accounts of what it's like to have to flee your ain home. Concluding yr I reviewed a piece of work of fiction that looked at the trials of coming to Canada, and this year I've gotten a few more books under my belt that deal with this aforementioned issue.
Homes: A Refugee Story was sent to me concluding year, merely I've finally gotten around to reading it because it is longlisted for Canada Reads this year. I'm so glad I did, in fact I wished I had read information technology earlier considering I would accept recommended information technology to then many people by now! Information technology'south written by an ESL instructor in Edmonton, based on the stories from her student Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah, a young human being who fled Syria with his family once their refugee application was approved. Together, they describe Bakr's in one case-typical life, playing soccer in the streets with his friends, working at his family unit's bakery later school and playing video games on the weekends. Slowly, life changes for him as tensions rise in Homs, and instead of a rare occurrence, gunfire and car bombings get an everyday event.
What I dearest virtually this book is the voice; it breaks down the barriers of us vs. them, which is such a prevalent theme when information technology comes to stories of refugees. Instead, Bakr's childhood (earlier the violence) is one that seems familiar to me, and volition band true for many Western readers. Information technology'southward a gradual change that happens around him, turning his familiar streets into a war-zone, but this change happens in such indiscernible ways that we are simply equally shocked as he is, and what'southward worse is how obvious information technology is that the unproblematic emotion of hate was the beginning of that society'southward devastation. At a time when people seem more divided than ever over politics, it's a articulate alert sign that if we allow hate to enter our everyday vocabulary and thoughts, nosotros are no better than the decadent officials we blame for starting these civil wars.
It's obvious why this volume has affected so many people-it paints a brilliant picture show explaining why we may fear refugees when they come to our country, simply this fear is so clearly unfounded. Bakr admits that when he came to Edmonton, those showtime few months he was angry and frustrated. Then many people would condemn these feelings, claiming he should just exist grateful for escaping the danger of Syria-which he nearly certainly is. He admits to being angry with himself more than annihilation, because he was so grateful for being in Canada, and still, he struggled with learning a new linguistic communication and civilization, all while feeling guilty that he had left backside other family unit members still caught in the grips of war. And yet, as Canadians, we demand these refugees be forever happy and grateful just to be in a place that nosotros and so oft complain about ourselves. The double standards nosotros construct for these victims is astonishing, and all the same it happens each and every day every time someone criticizes their behaviour.
So delight, before your point the finger at a refugee not acting the way you await them to, learn about their story offset: Homes is a wonderful identify to start.
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Bakr and this memoir are remarkable examples of resilience, force and bravery, leaving turmoil and coming to Canada for a improve life. I am in awe of the forcefulness of his parents!
This volition be a neat book to discuss at Canada Reads!!
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Abu Bakr al Rabeeah was born in Republic of iraq, but when life became untenable for his Sunni family in a Shi'a area, his parents made the determination to emigrate to Syrian arab republic. Unfortunately, not long after their motion to Syrian arab republic, the country began to descend into civil war. Bakr spent years of his childhood seeing the destruction first-hand, from bombed buildings to decease on the streets. He speaks of the ability to differentiate the odor of fresh blood spilled in the streets from the stench of a long-expressionless corpse buried in rubble. He finds a man'southward jawbone on his father's belongings and gives it a proper burial. Go along in listen he is a kid; these are things no child should have to endure.
Fortunately his father's awarding to move to the Due west is granted, and the family unit goes to Canada. Now they are safe from the violence and the decease and the destruction, but they're in a new land, vastly different from what they had known in either Republic of iraq or Syria, and none of them know English. Information technology's hard for them to decide which is more difficult — living with family and familiar traditions in a war-torn country, or being physically safety merely alone and lost in a new globe.
This is a very important book to read in today's culture of Islamaphobia and xenophobia. We have then much to offer in the West and should do more to accept the people fleeing violence and civil war.
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This is a wonderful book... it'due south another library ebook that I enjoyed and so much that I purchased information technology. I wish Goodreads offered more than 5 stars because this book deserves it.
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Note: Homes is the "Big Library Read" for 4/i-4/15/2019 ( https://biglibraryread.com/ ). The Big Library Read makes unlimited copies
Homes is the story of a male child, Abu Bakr, and his family living in Homs, Syria and their efforts to go out the violence of the Assad regime. It'southward beautifully written by his teacher.This is a wonderful volume... information technology'due south another library ebook that I enjoyed so much that I purchased it. I wish Goodreads offered more than 5 stars because this book deserves information technology.
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Notation: Homes is the "Big Library Read" for four/i-iv/xv/2019 ( https://biglibraryread.com/ ). The Large Library Read makes unlimited copies of the selected ebook available to borrow from participating libraries, and then there's no expect.
An interesting Overdrive blog post about this title (includes link to an interview with the authors): https://visitor.overdrive.com/2019/04...
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I would never have picked this volume on my own . . .it is out of every aspect of my feel. I'm grateful the author and his teachers took the fourth dimension to completely tell this story.
Kudos to all who helped get this family to their final destination. And God bless Canada!
Sobering viewpointI would never accept picked this book on my own . . .it is out of every aspect of my experience. I'm grateful the writer and his teachers took the time to completely tell this story.
Kudos to all who helped get this family to their final destination. And God anoint Canada!
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Telling this from the view of a young boy made it fifty-fifty more moving for me, a kid should never have to alive nether those circumstances but however they practise every 24-hour interval.
I tin't stop thinking of the quote attributed to Plato. "Exist kind, for
Homes: A Refugee Story left me with many emotions. Gratitude for existence built-in when and where I was. A deep sadness at the horrors nosotros inflict upon one some other. Disbelief that correct now at that place are people out in that location just hoping for for one more solar day of safety for their family.Telling this from the view of a young male child made information technology fifty-fifty more than moving for me, a child should never take to live nether those circumstances but yet they practice every day.
I can't stop thinking of the quote attributed to Plato. "Be kind, for every one yous meet is fighting a difficult battle." A expert reminder to exist patient with people who may not empathize things correct abroad. No one wants to exit their home and get a refugee. It must be terrifying.
Highly recommended - the world would exist a better identify if we all read this book
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Homes is a short read, the writing maybe not as polished and immersive equally it could be, but I had to keep reminding myself that information technology was written past a immature teenager (with assistance from his English language teacher), in a language strange to him, using Google Translate and a
Abu Bakr al Rabeeah'due south story is captivating, providing a unique window into the means in which his family unit struggled to maintain a normal life in Syrian arab republic, despite the escalating violence and political turmoil during the Syrian civil state of war.Homes is a short read, the writing perhaps not as polished and immersive as it could be, but I had to keep reminding myself that it was written by a young teenager (with assistance from his English language teacher), in a language strange to him, using Google Interpret and a lot of time and patience.
While in that location are other Canada Reads shortlist titles that are more eloquent (Chariandy's Brother) or entertaining (Wong's The Woo-Woo), I recollect Homes has the more of import story and message, 1 of love and inclusion, that deserves be told, especially in an age of Islamophobia, anti-immigration and protectionism sentiments.
Definitely worth a look :)
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2019 Canada Reads selection- first one I tackled, mostly considering of the length. It is well worth reading, and although in that location is horror, the overarc In this work of creative non-fiction, I was given insight into the story of an innocent. A child of 10 being raised up with dear and connectedness, with resilience and faith, and with war. The war in Syria. How this child, and his family unit, made it out and into Canada. This is Abu Bakr's story. A new Canadian, and so his story has become part of Canada's.
2019 Canada Reads choice- get-go i I tackled, mostly considering of the length. It is well worth reading, and although there is horror, the overarching theme is about family, connection, and how those things helped keep his family unit together and live. ...more
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This curt memoir is written by a child about his time fleeing war torn first Iraq then Syria with is family to the safe haven of Edmonton Alberta Canada.
At the time of writing the author is maybe 15 so his account as a 10 eleven and twelve yr old are non only still fresh but from an entirely different perspective than perhaps that of an adult.
Once in Syrian arab republic, the family makes application for refugee status through the Un.
What a very unique business relationship of escaping war for a safer destination.This short memoir is written by a child well-nigh his time fleeing war torn start Iraq then Syria with is family to the prophylactic haven of Edmonton Alberta Canada.
At the time of writing the writer is perhaps xv so his business relationship as a x eleven and twelve year old are not but still fresh merely from an entirely different perspective than perhaps that of an adult.
Once in Syria, the family unit makes application for refugee status through the Un. Four years laissez passer earlier the family finally hears they volition be sent to the condom haven of Canada.
The writer retells his family unit's experiences during those four years of civil unrest in Syria, waiting for discussion fro the Un.
Days are often spent staying indoors with his cousins playing Yard Theft Motorcar while just out his window massacres are taking place and bombs are going off. But for the moment they are prophylactic giggling immature boys enjoying horseplay and PlayStation to pass the time. That is non to brand light of the death and terror going on just beyond their walls, nor is information technology meant to signal that information technology did not upshot them. Rather it is to illustrate a viewpoint not often taken in such retelling of these events.
Neighbours die in crossfires, bombs destroy nearby apartments or schools and the writer explains how excited he is to be heading off to the starting time day of form six, his last yr in elementary school.
Coming from a large family, x in all, where the writer is the tertiary youngest, he still has his responsibilities as a blood brother, to take intendance of his sisters. His extended family unit provides him with numerous male cousins with whom he shares a very brotherly bond. While he and 8 of his siblings are in school his begetter and older brother are running the family unit business, a successful bakery. The family continues, equally best they tin, to carry on with their normal lives inside the community during this unusual fourth dimension. The effects of the ongoing war in Syrian arab republic are told in a very matter of fact style. Constantly the are running for cover from outbursts. Constantly they are accounting for the whereabouts of each other to ensure their safety. Constantly they are re-examining their options for a improve life. Naught is certain just the fact that more bombs and shootings volition surely follow.
The day finally arrives when the approval equally refugees is given and they are told they will go out for Canada in one calendar month.
Once they go far in Canada and are provided housing their new life begins. But the author still experiences the same feelings of daily fear every bit he did in Syria. But this fourth dimension information technology is fear of the unknown, the incredible silence at night, and the loss of his extended family notwithstanding in Syria.
Just the last couple of chapters are his story in Canada, of heading back to schoolhouse, learning English, longing for old friends.
It was his cousins and friends in Syrian arab republic who fabricated him promise to "tell his story" then others would understand the plight of refugees that prompted this book. The author was encouraged and assisted by his ESL teacher in the writing. That piece is identified in the Afterword. In that location the teacher explains how they used YouTube videos of attacks and newsfeeds to accurately describe some of the retelling of events. They looked at Google Earth street view so she could see where he travelled to school, to his cousins, to the family bakery. And they used Google translate to capture the thoughts and words of the author that he could not yet otherwise convey to her in English language.
The story is wonderfully retold in the voice of this young man who while telling of his child'due south play seems wise beyond his years. Living in a war torn country has provided him with many experiences no child should e'er accept to endure, but his ability to share his perspective is 1 that every child tin learn from.
Fifty-fifty adults can learn from this. The stories of refugees come up from a diversity of backgrounds and this ane displays a new perspective.
This would be a terrific volume for school age children to read at the start of school year. It would offer them an understanding of their new classmates perspective and give them an opportunity to extend pity, empathy and kindness. In that location tin never exist too much kindness!
Truly a timely "must read"!
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It is refreshing in that it is his story, through his eyes; the book doesn't go into the politics and geopolitics or annihilation else. This is just what Abu Bakr experienced living in Syria, and upon his arrival in Canada.
And his experiences are worth reading about.
Overall, a charming and easy read that doesn't shy abroad from telling the whole truth. Would definitely recommend.
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