Habibi

Fourteen-year-old Liyana Abboud loves to hear her father call her habibi--Arabic for "darling". But she's not prepared for her family's decision to move from St. Louis to Jerusalem. This provocative first novel from the acclaimed poet builds a bridge to the Arab world, introduces a family readers won't soon forget, and offers a hope for peace.  (Goodreads)

It is hard for any teenager to move away from friends, school, and all that is familiar especially when moving to another country.  She is thrown into a culture and land that is foreign to her but she learns to love her father's homeland and her family she has never met before now.  This book also helps the reader see and understand that not all people and cultures are stereotypical of what they see in the media.