Home is not a country /
Elhillo, Safia.
Home is not a country / Safia Elhillo. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : Make Me a World, 2022. �2021 - 215 p. ; 21 cm.
School Library Journal, January 2021 Booklist starred, March 2021 Kirkus Starred, January 2021 Horn Book, July 2021 Publishers Weekly Annex, March 2021
"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up faraway in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen, the name her parents didn't give her at birth: Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might just be more real than Nima knows. And more hungry. And the life Nima has, the one she keeps wishing were someone else's . . . she might have to fight for it with a fierceness she never knew she had"--Publisher.
Young Adult Follett School Solutions. NP Lexile.
Coretta Scott King Award, 2022
9780593177082
African American teenage girls--Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
African American teenage girls--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Identity--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
[Fic]
Home is not a country / Safia Elhillo. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : Make Me a World, 2022. �2021 - 215 p. ; 21 cm.
School Library Journal, January 2021 Booklist starred, March 2021 Kirkus Starred, January 2021 Horn Book, July 2021 Publishers Weekly Annex, March 2021
"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up faraway in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen, the name her parents didn't give her at birth: Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might just be more real than Nima knows. And more hungry. And the life Nima has, the one she keeps wishing were someone else's . . . she might have to fight for it with a fierceness she never knew she had"--Publisher.
Young Adult Follett School Solutions. NP Lexile.
Coretta Scott King Award, 2022
9780593177082
African American teenage girls--Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
African American teenage girls--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Identity--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
[Fic]