Okay, 5 minutes was not enough! I wanted to touch on the overall theme of these books: displacement. All of these characters in this text set are displaced and looking for a new opportunity. In Freedom Over Me the slaves are embracing their lives as slaves and finding their passions which is highly looked down upon. In Dreamers, Yuyi and her son move to the United States for an opportunity and are completely alone. In The Arabic Quilt, Kanzi and her family just moved to America and Kanzi is missing home, Egypt. At first she is timid of her language and culture because it's different from her classmates. Kanzi finds her voice and embraces being Egyptian-American and teaches her classmates and school the importance of being different. I really liked this book and the illustrations Anait Semirdzhyan created. The illustrations were simple but yet powerful. I would also say the overall theme of The Arabic Quily is empathy and identity. You can put your feet in Kanzi's shoes and understand what she is going through. She is also struggling with her identity because she is new to the school.