For the past three years Jamie has hidden her Lebanese background from everyone at school. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. There are a lot of things Jamie hates about her life: her dark hair, her dad's Stone Age Charter of Curfew Rights, her real name - Jamilah Towfeek. The listener becomes a part of the family and roots for Jamie to discover a pride in her heritage and a belief in her own strength." (AudioFile Magazine) The personalities of Jamie's hang-loose 18-year-old brother, her tired immigrant father, who speaks in broken English, and her rhetoric-spouting revolutionary sister sound authentic. She soon settles into the material, however, and delivers an engaging, energized performance, easily handling a multitude of characters of different ethnic backgrounds, social classes, and ages. At the beginning of the book, Rebecca Macauley's characterization of teenage conversation is too loud and brash. "This coming-of-age story chronicles the world of Jamie, an Australian teenager of Lebanese Muslim descent, who struggles with peer pressure and racism at school and with her widowed father's rules at home. "A warm and loving portrait of family life. Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah TEACHING NOTES LOOK INSIDE Paperback 16.95 Buy eBook 9.99 16.
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