“At school I’m Aussie-blond Jamie – one of the crowd. At home I’m Muslim Jamilah – driven mad by my Stone Age dad. I should win an Oscar for my acting. But how long can I keep it up?”

Jamie wants to be the real thing, right down from the roots of her dyed-blonde hair. But there lots of things that Jamie hates about her life: her black hair, her stuffy old dad, and her real name – Jamilah Towfeek. Most of all, she hates herself for hiding her Lebanese-Muslim background from friends at school. The only person she can confide in is the anonymous boy she chats to online. But now the best-looking boy in her class wants to date her. Her dad will never allow it, and her double life can’t be a secret much longer. Who will find true love – Jamie or Jamilah? Funny, topical and heart-wrenching, this is a moving and richly believable story of family loyalty, identity and finding oneself.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780439943710

Date published

August 6th, 2007

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.8; Middle years plus; 9.0 points

Other details

320 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Randa Abdel-Fattah is a 26 year-old Australian-born Muslim-Palestinian-Egyptian-choc-a-holic lawyer. Having grown up in Melbourne, she now lives in Sydney where she is active in the inter-faith community. She loves travelling to Egypt and Palestine and being spoilt by relatives. She also loves reading, watching romantic comedies, her husband’s sense of humour, getting a seat on the train, and any movie starring Colin Firth. Randa is married with a baby daughter.