02108cam a2200349 i 4500 1262083534 TxAuBib 201023s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020020277 9781547603947 1547603941 (OCoLC)20972 TxAuBib rda Tolan, Sandy. Lemon tree. The lemon tree : an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East / Sandy Tolan. Young readers' edition. New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2020. 196 pages : maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""Adapted from the author's adult book ""The lemon tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East, first published in 2006 by Bloomsbury USA.""--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-190) and index. In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next half century in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, demonstrating that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and transformation. Khayrł, Bashłr. Landau, Dalia Eshkenazi 1947- Palestinian Arabs Biography. Israelis Biography. Arab-Israeli conflict Biography. Ramlah (Israel) Biography. Biographies.