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Thunderbird / Sonia Nimr ; translated by M. Lynx Qualey.
Van Pelt Library PJ7952.I49 T48 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nimr, Sonia, author.
- Series:
- Emerging voices from the Middle East
- Standardized Title:
- Tayir alraed. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time travel--Juvenile fiction.
- Time travel.
- Palestinian Arabs--Juvenile fiction.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
- Orphans.
- Jinn--Juvenile fiction.
- Jinn.
- Magic--Juvenile fiction.
- Magic.
- Crusades--Juvenile fiction.
- Crusades.
- Animals, Mythical--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals, Mythical.
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Palestinian Arabs--Fiction.
- Time travel--Fiction.
- Genies--Fiction.
- Magic--Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Fantasy.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Austin, Texas] : Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2022-2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "A Palestinian girl travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world"-- from publisher's website.
- "The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers and save the world. Aided by a djinn cat and girls who look identical to Noor and who each have one of the bird's powers, in this initial volume Noor begins her jouney through different historical periods, striving to keep the wall between worlds intact"--Book one, back cover.
- In this second installment, Noor finds herself in the year 1177 in Jerusalem, during the Crusades. With the help of Sabeeka, Zainab, a girl who has the power to become invisible, and her local resistance group, Noor must once again find a feather belonging to the thunderbird before it burns, in order to prevent the world of the djinn from collapsing into the human world. Along the way, Noor helps the resistance group save hundreds of books and manuscripts from being burned. Like the first book in the Thunderbird trilogy, Book Two combines the magical with real events from Palestinian history to take the reader on a wild and adventurous ride through time."--Book two, back cover.
- "In the third and final book of the Thunderbird trilogy, Noor finds herself in the year 638, in Byzantine Jerusalem, where the city is under siege. She is joined by Sabeeka, the djinn who takes the form of a cat, and meets the twins Helena and Julian, who have the power of healing. The four team up to find the thunderbird. But before they can, they all get swallowed by a giant wormlike creature called a Baku Salaa, which takes them to the world beyond the wall that separates the world of the djinn from our ordinary human world. From the terrifying dark, gloomy world of the Baku Salaa, Noor and her friends are rescued and end up in the colorful and peaceful world of the Sakarik. In this new world, they discover that the Baku Salaa are stealing the golden liquid that keeps the Sakarik alive. Will Noor and her friends be able to save the Sakarik and get back to the human world in time to find the last two thunderbird feathers that will save the world?"--Book three, back cover.
- ISBN:
- 9781477325810
- 1477325816
- 9781477326930
- 1477326936
- 9781477327524
- 1477327525
- OCLC:
- 1347468106
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