Her personal growth, achieved with some pain but also with much satisfaction, is beautifully portrayed Sarah is a character with whom many teenage readers will identify and ultimately, admire. Her impressions of Israel, especially Jerusalem and the area of the Galilee where she works as a kibbutz volunteer, are idealistic but acute they will evoke memories in any reader who has already been there and will arouse curiosity in those who haven’t. Along with the thrill of belonging as a Jew in a Jewish land, Sarah experiences her first taste of independence and her first romantic encounters with boys. For an American girl from a small, mainly Christian town, in Pennsylvania who considers herself a dork and an outsider, it is a transformative experience. Narrating this novel in a free verse style that reads like prose, 16-year-old Sarah tells the story of the summer she spends working on an Israeli kibbutz.
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