This was a bit slow to start with but by the middle, I was hooked!! I've never read a chick-lit book where the main character was a muslim looking for her soulmate!! The whole no sex, or even kissing or touching before marriage is hard for me to take - I was quite the run-around when I was young ...
Lara wants to make sure everyone has a best friend. It doesn't matter that she doesn't, because it's understood that she is far to busy helping others to have time for that herself. But when a new girl (who is disturbingly uncaring about others' perceptions of her) challenges Lara to see who ca...
Awesome book. it is a first person crime, mystery but in a teenagers life. i started reading it in the library and just couldn't stop. I loved the fact that could relate to the fact that his dad was strict and he loved to take life as a joke which is me it also has mystery and makes me think whi...
This was a random buy, picked up mostly because, flipping through it, the word Tasmania caught my eye - and then I read that the author is Australian. For purely nostalgic reasons I just had to read it. Amal is a year 11 student in her third term at a posh private school in Melbourne. She's also ...
Ten Things is about Jamie, a teenage girl from Sydney’s south west who lives two lives: at school and in the outside world she is ‘Jamie’, a bottle-blonde with an apparently Anglo Aussie background; at home she is ‘Jamilah’ a Lebanese-Muslim who is proud of her cultural identity. Jamie struggles ...
He strides up to the counter and asks Baba if he can talk to him privately, suggesting they step outside. ‘Why?’ I say, standing close to Baba. ‘We can do this in front of all your customers,’ the man says, ‘or outside. Your pick.’ ‘What’s this abou...
“I can’t talk about hair for one second more!” My heart sank. Being as smart as I am, I instantly knew Carla was now out of the picture and we were back to square one. “What’s wrong?” “I’m so sorry, Lara. I know you’re trying really hard, but I can’t stand hanging out with Carla. Honestly, I’d ra...
This side of the street is lined with beautiful houses made of limestone. The courtyards that lead to white and bottle-green wrought-iron front doors are large and filled with palm and fern trees, their foliage leaning over the walls and creating pockets of shade on the street. High green, black ...