This accessible, exquisite novel shines with gentle humor and explores themes of moving, family, nature, and immigration. At each stop, Siddi finds a small stone that he later slips into Aref’s suitcase-mementos of home.
They visit the camp of a thousand stars deep in the desert, they sleep on Siddi’s roof, they fish in the Gulf of Oman and dream about going to India, they travel to the nature reserve to watch the sea turtles. But rather than pack, Aref and Siddi go on a series of adventures. His mother is desperate for him to pack his suitcase-but he refuses. He does not want to live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his parents will go to graduate school.
He does not want to leave his elementary school, his friends, or his beloved grandfather, Siddi. This is Naomi Shihab Nye’s first novel set in the Middle East since her acclaimed Habibi.Īref Al-Amri does not want to leave Oman. This book is a good choice for kids who may be resisting a family move, or really for anyone who loves poetic stories full of significant details.In this brief novel, told in short chapters by the acclaimed poet and National Book Award finalist Naomi Shihab Nye, Aref Al-Amri says good-bye to everything and everyone he loves in his hometown of Muscat, Oman, as his family prepares to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan. In one scene, Aref sees men smoking tobacco out of a "hubble-bubble" (a water pipe), and in another, he catches a fish but releases it because he wants it to live.
Readers will learn something about Oman and its people and pick up on the the various facts Aref lists between the pages about turtles, foxes, and more. He eventually learns that, like the turtles he loves so much, he carries his home with him - and will return to where he's from. Parents need to know that The Turtle of Oman is a coming-of-age story about a boy from the country of Oman on the Arabian Peninsula, who doesn't want to move to the United States, where his parents are moving temporarily to attend graduate school in Michigan. On a camping trip, Aref sees men smoking tobacco out of a "hubble-bubble" (a waterpipe).ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
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