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This title in other editionseBook editionsTen Things I Hate about Meby Randa Abdel Fattah
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Randa Abdel-Fattah's new novel about about finding your place in life . . . and learning to accept yourself and your culture. "At school I'm Aussie-blonde Jamie — one of the crowd. At home I'm Muslim Jamilah — driven mad by my Stone Age dad. I should win an Oscar for my acting skills. But I can't keep it up for much longer..." Jamie just wants to fit in. She doesn't want to be seen as a stereotypical Muslim girl, so she does everything possible to hide that part of herself. Even if it means pushing her friends away because she's afraid to let them know her dad forbids her from hanging out with boys or that she secretly loves to play the darabuka (Arabic drums). Review:"Jamilah Towfeek hides her Lebanese-Muslim background from the other kids at her Australian school 'to avoid people assuming I fly planes into buildings as a hobby.' She dyes her hair blonde, wears blue contacts and stands by when popular kids make racist remarks. Passing as 'Jamie' is fraught with difficulties: she can't invite friends to her house, lies to cover up her widower dad's strict rules and reveals her true self only to an anonymous boy she meets online (her e-mail address is 'Ten_Things_I_Hate_About_Me'). Tensions at home and school culminate when the band she plays in at her madrassa (Islamic school) is hired to perform at her 10th-grade formal. Abdel-Fattah (Does My Head Look Big in This?) follows a predictable pattern and uses familiar devices, such as the understanding teacher ('If [your friends] don't know the real you, then you've already lost them'). On the other hand, the author brings a welcome sense of humor to Jamilah's insights about her culture, and she is equally adept at more delicate scenes, for example, Jamilah's father recounting memories of Jamilah's mother. For all the defining details, Jamilah is a character teens will readily relate to. Ages 12 — up." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:Wanting to fit in at her Australian high school, Jamilah, 16, hides behind dyed blonde hair, blue contact lenses and the name Jamie. And she never talks about her boisterous Lebanese Muslim family or her love of playing the darabuka, an Arabic drum. As shy Jamie, Jamilah realizes she doesn't "make much of an impact," but she feels comfortable exposing her vibrant personality only at home and in e-mails... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) Synopsis:In Abdel-Fattah's breakthrough first novel, "Does My Head Look Big in This?," an Australian Muslim teen defies prejudice and wears the hijab as a badge of her deeply held faith. This story looks at the issues from the opposite viewpoint: Jamilah, a 16-year-old Lebanese Muslim. hides her Muslim identity, even from her best friend.
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