![]() Allie Is a straight A student with a loving family, good friends and is dating the sweet Wells Henderson. The book opens with a scene on an airplane where Allie’s father is targeted by the man next to him when he hears him speaking Arabic. Islamophobic comments bring the steward over and Allie stands up for her father showing on her phone that he is a professor at Northwestern. Allie smooths over the incident but is tired of bearing the burden of other peoples’ ignorance. Her parents do not practice Islam (although her father’s extended family do) and advise Allie, who does not appear Muslim, to not acknowledge her heritage. Feeling spiritually lost, Allie finds herself drawn to Islam and joins a young woman’s study group where they discuss religion. Supported by these strong feminist women, Allie feels proud to be an out Muslim and begins to learn Arabic so that she can speak with her grandmother. When she finds out that Well’s father in none other than Jack Henderson infamous Islamophobic talk show shock jock, Allie is faced with some hard choices. Will there budding romance survive this news? I loved the diverse characters in Allie’s family and how she finds her path and has the courage to follow it. I came away with so much empathy for what it means to be Muslim in America. Tessa's picks,6th-8th grade, Character driven, Contemporary fiction, Family life, Global perspectives, Issues fiction.
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