The Treasure of Maria Mamoun

by Michelle Chalfoun

Book Overview

Winner of the 2017 Arab American Book Award

Twelve-year-old Maria lives a lonely, latchkey-kid's life in the Bronx. Her Lebanese mother is working two nursing jobs to keep them afloat, and Maria keeps her worries to herself, not wanting to be a burden. Then something happens one day between home and school that changes everything. Mom whisks them to an altogether different world on Martha's Vineyard, where she's found a job on a seaside...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374303401
• ISBN13: 9780374303402
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7