The next new Syrian girl
Shukairy, Ream2023
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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.
The next new Syrian girl / Ream Shukairy.
Shukairy, Ream, author
New York : Little, Brown Young Readers, 2023.
416 pages ; 21 cm
Ages 12+. Little, Brown and Company.Adolescent.
9780316432634 (hbk)
813.6
English
3390442