#MPReadingRoad : Does My Head Look Big In This ? by Randa Abdal Fattah

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 that it is, even if it does make her a little different from everyone else.

Can she handle the taunts of "towel head," the prejudice of her classmates, and still attract the cutest boy in school? Brilliantly funny and poignant, Randa Abdel-Fattah's debut novel will strike a chord in all teenage readers, no matter what their beliefs.

IMPRESSIONS:  

This book talks about a young muslima who has to deal with islamophobia and racism while starting to wear hijab. Our character is very strong, she stands for her beliefs and is fighting for it. Our author doesn’t only talk about islamophobia and racism, but also about migration, family pressure, friendship, love, etc. 

There are some things that I do not love about this book (maybe because I’m a bit conservative) but it's not too bad.

NOTE:

13,50/20

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