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    <body><![CDATA[Have you ever had one of those weeks/months/years where no book is able to hold your attention? And you need a good one to break the trend? For me, this was that book. <br/><br/>Amal is a 17 year-old Muslim Australian who goes to a snobby (read WASP) school in the suburbs. She's always been a prac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6910585">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[...oh dear. Political comment thinly - and poorly - disguised as teenage chicklit. Badly written, tedious and ranty; fancies itself as simultaneously intellectual and American-sitcom-ish. And, ironically, crammed full of stereotypes.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Young adult book about a high school student in Australia who decides to wear the hijab. I don't love this one. Written in the first person present tense, I feel like the narrator’s lecturing me. Other than that, the writing style is good. It’s humorous and sometimes that works. I think two thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53475707">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don’t know about anybody else, but I’d want to return to my high school years about as much as I’d want to see the IRS on my caller ID.  Those years are tough on all of us, a time for our rapidly growing ideas and minds to catch up with our rapidly growing body parts, a time to figure out wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51359077">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the author (or publisher?) had a few goals in mind for this book.<br/><br/>1.  Provide awareness and understanding for the lifestyle and beliefs of Islam.<br/>2.  Show someone trying to be herself in the face of adversity.<br/>3.  Illustrate a whole range of family/personal/religious iss...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14432382">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Does My Head Look Big in This? – Randa Abdel-Fattah<br/><br/><br/>“It hit me when I was power walking on the treadmill at home, watching a Friends rerun for about the nineteenth time.<br/>	It’s that scene when Jennifer Aniston is dressed in a hideous bridesmaid’s outfit at her ex’s wed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12614559">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was hoping this book would be laugh-out-loud funny - it wasn't.  But it had a light-hearted tone and I felt like I got a lot out of it.  It was so interesting to read about an Australian-Palestinian girl who was just a regular teenager, not a victim or a religious fanatic.  Her faith was an import...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11880902">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I got through 25 pages of this book before throwing it aside.<br/><br/>I had picked this up on a whim from the library because it seemed moderately interesting and different from what I've read in the past. Sadly, it failed to entertain me for more than ten minutes.<br/><br/>The narrarator'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29425713">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>It took me sometime to figure out how I feel about this book….I admit that there aren’t many books/novels that involve Muslims  living in the western world, but at the same time I don’t feel that this particular book would be the best one to present an average view about Islam and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27279689">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An episode of <em>Friends</em> inspires Amal to take the plunge: she's going to wear the hijab full-time.  Even at her private Australian prep school.  Even around the boy she desperately likes.  Even around the crazy, grumpy Greek Orthodox lady next door.  Is she ready for it?<br/><br/>I loved how this bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8820041">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amal is the ONLY Arab Muslim at her super posh, super private, super conservative Australian High School. Amal sticks out like a sore thumb! During Winter Break, Amal decides she is going to wear the hijab fulltime. She discusses this with her parents who  back her decision, but want to make sure Am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17237234">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was recommended to me by a teen co-worker and major reader, who had a friend who wore Hijab.  It was a new perspective for me, funny, and a pretty realistic not too over the top teen voice.]]></body>
    
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