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Petit Pays de Gaël Faye Rishi Petit Pays - Gaël Faye Éditeur : Éditions Grasset Année de publication : 2016 Note : 14 Résumé Avant Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l’harmonie familiale s’est disloquée en même temps que son « petit pays », le Burundi, ce bout d’Afrique centrale brutalement malmené par l’Histoire. Plus tard, Gabriel fait revivre un monde à jamais perdu. Les battements de cœur et les souffles coupés, les pensées profondes et les rires déployés, le parfum de citronnelle, les termites les jours d’orage, les jacarandas en fleur… L’enfance, son infinie douceur, ses douleurs qui ne nous quittent jamais. Impression Un poign...

It All Comes Back To You by Farah Naz Rishi It All Comes Back To You Publisher : Hot Key Books Year : 2023 Rating : 03 Resume Two exes must revisit their past after their siblings start dating in this rom-com perfect for fans of Sandhya Menon and Morgan Matson. After Kiran Noorani’s mom died, Kiran vowed to keep her dad and sister, Amira, close—to keep her family together. But when Amira announces that she’s dating someone, Kiran’s world is turned upside down. Deen Malik is thrilled that his brother, Faisal, has found a great girlfriend. Maybe a new love will give Faisal a new lease on life, and Deen can stop feeling guilty for being the reason that Faisal needs a do-over in the first place. When the families meet, Dee...

BOOK’S NAME: Does My Head Look Big In This? AUTHOR: Randa Abdal Fattah Abdel-Fattah was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 6 June 1979 of Palestinian and Egyptian heritage. She grew up in Melbourne, Victoria and attended a Catholic primary school and Islamic secondary college, obtaining an International Baccalaureate. She wrote her first "novel", based on Roald Dahl's Matilda, when she was in sixth grade. As a teenager, she wrote short stories and produced the first draft of Does My Head Look Big in This? at about the age of 18. EDITORS : Scholastic Press TYPE Young Adult SUBJECT(S): School life, racism, muslim community, migration MAIN CHARACTERS:   Zeynab, a young teenage american muslim girl SECONDARY CHARACTERS: Adam, Zeynab’s crush RESUME: Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full-time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street. But she stands by her decision to embrace her faith and all th...

BOOK’S NAME : Ayesha at Last AUTHOR: Uzma Jalauddin EDITIONS : Harper Collins MAIN CHARACTERS:   Ayesha Shamsi Khaled Mizra SECONDARY CHARACTERS : Hafsa : Ayesha’s cousin – Aunty Samiry Hafsa’ mother Saleha Ayesha’s mother, Idris, Ayesha’s brother Clara, Ayesha’s friend and her boyfriend Bob Zareena, Khalid’s sister Farzana : Khalid’s mother Sheila Watts, Khalid’s boss RESUME : AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is conservative and judgmental. She is irritatingly attracted to someone who looks down on her choices and dresses like he belongs in the seventh ...

 FICHE DE LECTURE BOOK’S NAME: All The Things We Never Said AUTHOR: Yasmin Rahman EDITIONS : Hot Key Books TYPE Novel SUBJECT(S): Depression, suicide, family, friendship, mental health MAIN CHARACTERS:   Mehreen, Olivia and Cara RESUME: 16-year-old Mehreen Miah's anxiety and depression, or 'Chaos', as she calls it, has taken over her life, to the point where she can't bear it any more. So she joins MementoMori, a website that matches people with partners and allocates them a date and method of death, 'the pact'. Mehreen is paired with Cara Saunders and Olivia Castleton, two strangers dealing with their own serious issues. As they secretly meet over the coming days, Mehreen develops a strong bond with Cara and Olivia, the only people who seem to understand what she's going through. But ironically, the thing that brought them together to commit suicide has also created a mutually supportive friendship that makes them realise that, with the right help, life is ...

FICHE DE LECTURE NAME OF THE BOOK : Love From A to Z AUTHOR : Simon & Schuster, 2019 EDITIONS : S. K. Ali is the author of the 2018 Morris Award finalist « Saints and Misfits ». Her debut Novel won critical acclaim for its portrayal of an unapologetic American teen’s life. She lives with her family and a very vocal cat named Yeti, with whom she must engage in vigorous debate in order to access her laptop, since he cherishes it as another of his many beds.  MAIN CHARACTERS:   Zaynab (and Adam (a handsome muslim boy TYPE Fiction, Muslim Romance SUBJECT(S) Muslim Youth, Racism, Islamophobia, Sclerosis, Love, High School SECONDARY CHARACTERS : Auty Nandy, aunt of Zayneb – Sadia and Mansoor, sister and brother of Zayneb, ayaan, kavi her friends Hanna: Adma’s sister, Connor, Tsetso, Madison, the three Emma, etc.: Adam’s friends Zahid a good taxim who helped Adam RESUME: A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes—because th...