Golden Girl
Golden Girl
Reem Faruqi
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Product Info
Product Info
ISBN: 9780063044760
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 5/16/23
Binding: Paperback
Age Range: -12
Grade Range: 03-07
Series: ,
Pages:
Language: English
BISAC: Juvenile Fiction, Social Themes, Emigration, Immigration & Refugees, Family, Parents, Law & Crime, Stories in Verse (see also Poetry), Places, Middle East, Diversity & Multicultural, Friendship, Art, Poetry (see also Stories in Verse), Readers, and Chapter Books
Related Subjects: Family life, Teenage girls, False imprisonment, Impulse control disorders, Families, Pakistani Americans, Impulse control disorders in children, Novels in verse, and Pakistani American teenage girls
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From the award-winning, ALA Notable author of Unsettled and Lailah's Lunchbox, this is a captivating coming-of-age middle grade novel in verse about seventh grader Aafiyah Qamar, a Pakistani American girl who hatches a special plan to help her family but finds that doing what's right isn't always easy.
For fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and Clean Getaway, this is a heartfelt, soul-searching story with laughter, hope, and lessons learned.
Seventh grader Aafiyah loves playing tennis, reading Weird but True facts, and hanging out with her best friend, Zaina. However, Aafiyah has a bad habit that troubles her--she's drawn to pretty things and can't help but occasionally "borrow" them.
But when her father is falsely accused of a crime he hasn't committed and gets taken in by authorities, Aafiyah knows she needs to do something to help. When she brainstorms a way to bring her father back, she turns to her Weird but True facts and devises the perfect plan.
But what if her plan means giving in to her bad habit, the one she's been trying to stop? Aafiyah wants to reunite her family but finds that maybe her plan isn't so perfect after all. . .
A Bank Street Books Best Children's Book of the Year for ages 12-14 in Family/School/Community Fiction (2023)