The next new Syrian girl / Ream Shukairy.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionWhakaahuatanga: 409 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316432634
- 0316432636
- [Fic] 23
- PZ7.1.S51797 Ne 2023
- PS3619.H8444 Ne 2023
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Young adult fiction | Manaia LibraryPlus YA | Young adult fiction | SHUK (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2235109 |
Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she dreams of escaping her sheltered life to travel the world with her best friend. Leene Tahir is a Syrian refugee, doing her best to adjust to the wildly unfamiliar society of a suburban Detroit high school while battling panic attacks and family pressures. When their worlds collide the result is catastrophic. To Khadija, Leene embodies the tame, dutiful Syrian ideal she's long rebelled against. And to Leene, Khadija is the strong-willed, closed-off American who makes her doubt her place in the world. But as Khadija digs up Leene's past, a startling and life-changing discovery forces the two of them closer together. As the girls secretly race to unravel the truth, a friendship slowly and hesitantly begins blooming. Doubts are cast aside as they realize they have more in common than they each expected. What they find takes them on a journey all the way to Jordan, challenging what each knows about the other and herself.
Ages 12+. Little, Brown and Company.
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