Does My Head Look Big in This? - Randa Abdel-Fattah - Other - Bolinda Publishing - 9781742142968 - April 1, 2009
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Does My Head Look Big in This?

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Does My Head Look Big in This?

Winner - Australian Book Industry Awards 2006 - Australian Book of the Year for Older Children. The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: What is your confession, my child? I was stuffed. The Priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call me a traitor ... The Priest asked me again: What is your confession, my child? I'm Muslim. I whispered. Welcome to my world. I'm Amal Abdel-Hakim, a seventeen year-old Australian-Palestinian-Muslim still trying to come to grips with my various identity hyphens. It's hard enough being cool as a teenager when being one issue behind the latest Cosmo is enough to disqualify you from the in-group. Try wearing a veil on your head and practising the bum's up position at lunchtime and you know you're in for a tough time at school. Luckily my friends support me, although they've got a few troubles of their own. Simone, blonde, gorgeous and overweight - she's got serious image issues, and Leila's really intelligent but her parents are more interested in her getting a marriage certificate than her high school certificate! And I thought I had problems.
'This is a superb first novel with clever, entertaining dialogue, language and characters ' - Good Reading Magazine

Media Other     N/A   (Unknown format)
Released April 1, 2009
ISBN13 9781742142968
Label Bolinda Publishing
Dimensions 110 × 230 × 25 mm   ·   190 g
Language English  

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