You're Not Proper: 1 (Striker) - Softcover

Mehmood, Tariq

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908446307 ISBN 13: 9781908446305

Verlag: HopeRoad Publishing, 2015

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Páginas: 198 Géneros: 12:YFB:General fiction (Children's / Teenage) 12:YFN:Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage) Sinopsis: Karen thinks shes not proper white. Her dad is Pakistani and her mother is white Christian, and somehow she feels as if she doesnt quite fit in... anywhere. So shes made a choice

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'You're Not Proper is a real insight into communities more often talked about than listened to. But it's not just an important book - it's full of heart and a cracking good read as well. Highly recommended!' (Melvin Burgess). 'Contemporary and hard-hitting, You're Not Proper is the story of two girls with one religion and two very different lifestyles ... High on impact and highly engaging, it truly is a story of our age.' (Jake Hope, critic, librarian and coordinator of the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award). "Mehmood gives us a sterotype-quashing, timely novel about religion, gender, and families. He is as astute about class difference and social injustice as he is about the growing Islamophobic racism hijabis face both in their everyday life and when the EDL come to demonstrate. Mehmood also writes very richly about South Asian food, the diverse congregations of mosques, and what instant messaging is doing to the English language. Despite all the conflict along the way, the novel ends on a note of reconciliation between light and shade. You're Not Proper sounds a resonant, authentic note that cuts through the monotone voices coming out of YA writing." (Dr Claire Chambers, Huffington Post). "An excellent book! Mehmood does an excellent job of describing what every day life is like in Manchester for Kiran, which will be fascinating for US readers. Too many times, the only British books that make it across the pond are about middle class, white children whose main concern is saving the world from some fantasy villain! This read quite a lot like a Jacqueline Wilson book with Pakistani characters. I gave this to one of my students, an avid reader who recently took to wearing a hijab, and her eyes lit up when she saw the title. 'That's exactly what MY family said!' Her background in Somali which is more in line with the teenagers' experiences in You're Not Proper rather than the experience of many of my students". (Ms Yingling Reads, Teacher / Librarian/Blogger, USA).

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Karen thinks she's not proper white. Her dad is Pakistani and her mother is white Christian, and somehow she feels as if she doesn't quite fit in... anywhere. So she's made a choice: she's switching sides. She's going to convert to Islam to find her true identity. But Shamshad, her Hijab-wearing school mate, isn't making things easy for her. What's her deal, anyway? Is Shamshad really any more 'proper' than Karen is? Set against a backdrop of seething prejudice, You're Not Proper goes deep into the world of Muslim youth, challenging their increasingly notorious and popularly held association with 'Allah-o-Akber-ers'. This novel takes us into a Britain in which people can no longer have a single identity, if ever they had one. Who belongs where, and who is proper in what place or in which circumstance are some of the major themes of this novel. And what happens to young people when all they hold dear is snatched away, sometimes violently, due to events and forces thousands of miles away?

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• Verlag: HopeRoad Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1908446307
• ISBN 13: 9781908446305
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198