too far from home Kar-Ben Publishing Naomi Shmuel Illustrated by Avi Katz
To my multicultural children Daniel Achenefe Michael Fassil Yigal Tadele and Eyal Sunbetu N S
Chapter 1 Leaving I looked out my window trying to soak up the view If I craned my neck I could just about see the grassy tip of Mount Hermon where my sisters and I go sledding every winter I just couldn’t believe that tomorrow I would be waking up in a completely new bedroom In an apartment building In the city With a view that I could not even begin to imagine So on that morning when everybody else got up as usual I stayed in bed Meskerem get up You know what a big day it is today My mother’s anxious voice reached me from the living room or what was left of it The house was already almost empty All of our belongings were neatly packed away in dozens of cardboard boxes lining the walls and piled up in the hallway Even my room looked unfriendly The 1
