Habibi

After reading Habibi I had mixed feelings. I was happy for Liyana as she became accustomed to her new home. I was also a little unhappy with the fact that she had to move there. I remember from when I was a kid I had to do a lot of moving my self with my family. We never went from one country to another but we did go to different states. It is hard as a child to develop relationships with people when you are unsure of how long you will be staying in one place. This kind of thing can either help and hinder your social skills depending on how you look at things. Some children go into a new school and are shy about who they are going to meet and how they are going to be treated. Yet there are others that go into a new situation and make the best of it because no one knows who they were before. I felt bad for Liyana when they had to move but I was happy to see by the end of the book she had adjusted to her new life.