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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Suzanne Fisher
Genre : Young Adult
Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher is a Newbery Honor Book. I read many Newbery Award books, and often find the honor books as good or better. More of these books are about young people in other lands, expanding our view of the world around us.
Young Shabanu lives in the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she’s dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her family’s honor—or listen to the stirrings of her own heart?
“I think it’s very important to honor your ideas and your dreams. When I was younger, my family worried because I was a daydreamer and an idealist, and because I wanted to be a writer. I didn’t know how to want to be something else. And I’m happy to have ended up doing what I do. Your dreams can’t come true if you don’t have dreams. My parents also were right, however: It’s important to be practical and learn to do things that are perhaps less fun to do. But those dreams are essential.”
“And ideas: If you don’t respect your ideas, make note of them, and keep your mind open to them, they’ll float right past you, like fish in the ocean. So I think journaling is important—being in the habit of making notes about what moves you, what impresses you, how things feel to you. If you don’t respect your ideas, nobody else will. Keeping a journal gives weight and substance to your thoughts and ideas.”
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