Canada Reads, book 5: "Homes"

Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah

  This memoir "Homes" is the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, as told to his teacher Winnie Yeung, when Abu was 15 years old.
   It tells of a childhood spent in Syria, in a very tight extended family with much warmth and security. Many hours playing video games or soccer. However,  Abu was only 10 when civil war broke out.
  Most of the book is the description of the horrors of the war.  But Abu's family of 10 was eventually able to immigrate to Canada.
   Winnie Yeung did a great job of describing not only their time in Syria, but also the immigrant experience in Edmonton.