Sami would stop at nothing to save her Lebanese grandmother, Sitti. But family secrets lead to hidden worlds and more than just Sitti's fate hangs in the balance. The perfect read for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon.Sitti, Sami's Lebanese grandmother, has been ill for a while, slipping from reality and speaking in a language only Sami can understand. Her family thinks Sitti belongs in a nursing home, but Sami doesn't believe she's sick at all. Desperate to help, Sami casts a spell from her grandmother's mysertious charm book and falls through an ancient mirror into a world unlike any other.
Welcome to Silverworld, an enchanted city where light and dark creatures called Flickers and Shadows strive to live in harmony. But lately Flickers have started going missing, and powerful Shadow soldiers are taking over the land.
Everyone in Silverworld suspects that Shadow Queen Nixie is responsible for the chaos, which is bad enough. But could Nixie be holding Sami's grandmother in her grasp too? To save Sitti and Silverworld, Sami must brave adventure, danger, and the toughest challenge of all: change.
On sale: May 14, 2024
Age: 8-12 years
Grade: Grades 3-7
Page count: 304 Pages
ISBN: 9780553509700
Reading level: Lexile: 800L | Fountas/Pinnell: X
Diana Abu-Jaber is most recently the author of
Fencing With the King, and
Birds of Paradise, an Indie Books Pick, as well as the award-winning memoirs
Life Without a Recipe and
The Language of Baklava and the bestselling novels
Origin and
Crescent, which was awarded the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the American Book Award. Her first novel,
Arabian Jazz, won the Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
Silverworld is Diana's first novel for children and started as a tale she told to entertain her young niece while vacationing in a condo lined with mirrors!
A frequent contributor to NPR, she teaches at Portland State University and divides her time between Portland and Fort Lauderdale.
“
An exciting fantasy with familiar elements—magical creatures, high stakes, and courage—
rich with Lebanese texture.” —
Kirkus
