Noura looks after two things: her little brother Esam, and her father's rooftop garden.
Life in Gaza is hard, and harder still for a child carrying that much of it. When Noura loses the thing she loves most, the question the book sits with is whether she can keep tending the garden anyway.
A story about persistence rather than rescue — and one of the few children's books in which a Palestinian child is the one with agency.
