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Author Bhathena, Tanaz, author. Title A girl like that / Tanaz Bhathena. Publisher New York, New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, LLC, 2018. ©2018. Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Eagle River young adult fiction YA BHA AVAILABLE Edition First edition. Descript 378 pages ; 22 cm age Children lcdgt Note Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 13 197615. Summary In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape. When the two end up dead in a car on a highway in Jeddah, it becomes clear she was far more than a "girl like that." Audience Young Adult. 890 Lexile. 890L Lexile. Subject East Indians -- Saudi Arabia -- Juvenile fiction. Dating (Social customs) -- Juvenile fiction. Rape -- Juvenile fiction. Bullying -- Juvenile fiction. Religion -- Juvenile fiction. High schools -- Juvenile fiction. Schools -- Juvenile fiction. Jiddah (Saudi Arabia) -- Juvenile fiction. Saudi Arabia -- Juvenile fiction. Rape -- Fiction. Religion -- Fiction. Bullying -- Fiction. Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. East Indians -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction. High schools -- Fiction. Jiddah (Saudi Arabia) -- Fiction. Saudi Arabia -- Fiction. Genre Young adult fiction. School fiction. ISBN/ISSN 9780374305444 (hardcover) 0374305447 (hardcover)
