Description
| Product ID: | 9781477326930 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Emerging Voices from the Middle East |
| Title: | Thunderbird |
| Subtitle: | Book Two |
| Authors: | Author: Sonia Nimr, M. Lynx Qualey |
| Page Count: | 152 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction, Science fiction (Children's / Teenage) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A Palestinian girl travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world. Shortlisted for the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, Society of Authors In this second installment, Noor finds herself in the year 1177 in Jerusalem, during the Crusades. With the help of Sabeeka, Zainab, a girl who has the power to become invisible, and her local resistance group, Noor must once again find a feather belonging to the thunderbird before it burns, in order to prevent the world of the djinn from collapsing into the human world. Along the way, Noor helps the resistance group save hundreds of books and manuscripts from being burned. Like the first book in the Thunderbird trilogy, Book Two combines the magical with real events from Palestinian history to take the reader on a wild and adventurous ride through time. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Texas Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Texas Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-11-22 |
