The New World

About the Book

This book is based on a true story of a young 11 years old girl (Lina), who had to move from her home country to Washington DC and to leave all her friends. Through the chapters of her story (Lina) describes her experience and challenges, since the moment that her parents told her, that they are going to move to America for two years. The book describes the events that accompanied her before and after her move with her family to America, including the social interaction with her friends, class mates and family members before and after moving to the U.S.A, and all the difficulties that she had to face especially the different language. This book was written by Lina only one year after she started to learn English

About the Author

Lina Ghanim was born in Jerusalem, Palestine on the 10th of March 1998. She is in the 6th grade at Tilden Middle School, and currently lives in Rockville, Maryland. This is her first book.