- Lebanese, Prejudices, Fiction, High schools
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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Randa Abdel-Fattah
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Scholastic, Incorporated, Scholastic, Orchard Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780545050555
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