![]() ![]() Randa Abdel-Fattah is the award-winning author of young adult novels Does My Head Look Big in This? and Ten Things I Hate About Me, and has her own identity hyphens to contend with (Australian-born-Muslim-Palestinian-Egyptian-choc-a-holic). The listener becomes a part of the family and roots for Jamie to discover a pride in her heritage and a belief in her own strength." - AudioFile Magazine Read more The personalities of Jamie's hang-loose 18-year-old brother, her tired immigrant father, who speaks in broken English, and her rhetoric-spouting revolutionary sister sound authentic. She soon settles into the material, however, and delivers an engaging, energized performance, easily handling a multitude of characters of different ethnic backgrounds, social classes, and ages. At the beginning of the book, Rebecca Macauley's characterization of teenage conversation is too loud and brash. entertaining." - Magpies Magazine "This book was amazing." - Amazon "This coming-of-age story chronicles the world of Jamie, an Australian teenager of Lebanese Muslim descent, who struggles with peer pressure and racism at school and with her widowed father's rules at home. ![]() "A warm and loving portrait of family life. ![]()
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