Does my head look big in this?

This is a fabulous book for any teenage girl no matter where you are from.  It really was simple to relate to every single character in the book, and the author did a great job of showing the multitude of challenges that an average teenage girl goes through.  Each character had numerous difficulties to face, and really developed solutions through out the whole novel.

What was great for this class, was that this book showed the added stress that the main character had to deal with due to her ethnicity, on top of all of the other strains she already had to deal with.  She was a very strong female character (for a 16 year old) and her thoughts were well developed.  I loved that this novel did not just address the challenge of racism, but also other stereotypes which cause constant negativity to developing teens. 

Whether or not you are from a different culture, made no difference in this book, because it was easy to relate to each characters struggles and triumphs.  

I also loved the the story put extra emphasis on the fact that their is a difference between religious dictations and cultural ones.  And one of my favorite parts in the novel is when the class president asks Amal to discuss terrorism and how Islam condones it at the class forum, and Amal then asks her if she would be happy to discuss the KKK and Christianity. *ZZINGGG.

So funny!