A Pakistani American children’s book author asks: What do you feel when you think of home?

Maham Khwaja’s children’s book, “The Home We Make," takes kids along the hopeful journey of a refugee girl and her family as they search for a new home. It was inspired by poetry she wrote in response to the first Trump administration as a young Muslim immigrant living in this country.

She talks with Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes about using writing as a tool for resilience.

By Maham Khwaja

Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Lee & Low Books. All rights reserved.

Author Khwaja shares an activity where she asks kids to think of things that remind them of home, draw them and then cut them into puzzle pieces so they form a puzzle.