This fictionalized memoir begins with a confrontation between Huda and her mother who is holding up a mediocre report card and demanding to know where Huda keeps her drugs.
After grabbing the reader’s attention in media res, the story rewinds back to Huda’s move with her mother and four sisters to Dearborn, Michigan. There the sisters attend public school for the first time with other hijab-wearing Muslim girls.
With a heaping dose of self-deprecating humor, this story of an American Muslim teen is highly accessible to fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Raina Telgemeier graphic format memoirs and offers a humorous perspective on one girl’s effort to fit in and find herself. --Jessica Fenster-Sparber
You can find a seven-page educator's guide, including discussion questions and extension activities from the publisher here.
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