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Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time....