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Kareem Between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
“This is a country of free speech. But sometimes, words spoken freely hurt.”
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Kareem’s best friend moved away so he thought he would try out for the football team to make new friends. When he doesn’t make the team, the coach’s son, Austin, makes him a deal. If Kareem does his homework for him, he’ll make sure he gets on for spring football. Kareem doesn’t feel good about this, but he’s desperate for a friend and a place to belong. Around the same time a new Syrian family moves into town, but Kareem doesn’t want to be friendly with their son at school for fear of being seen as different. His mom also decides to go to Syria to bring her ailing father and mother back with her, but when the 2017 Muslim Ban goes into effect, they are stuck without a way back to the U.S. Kareem must learn what’s important and to fight for what’s dear to him.
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Can I give a book 10 stars? If I could, I would give @muslimmommyblog MG novel in verse all the ⭐️ I could. This title is timely and shows the effect that 45’s racist comments, laws and executive orders had on so many people in the United States. The football analogy was spot on and even though I cried throughout this read, I will read it again and again to remind myself how important our vote and voice are moving forward, particularly in November. Maybe when some readers put a face, a name, a family to this issue, they will change how they look at immigration issues. I’ll be purchasing this for my middle school library the day it releases September 10.
CW: Islamophobia, racism, bullying, death of a grandparent, grief, xenophobia, hospitalization, anxiety, physical altercation
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Kareem’s best friend moved away so he thought he would try out for the football team to make new friends. When he doesn’t make the team, the coach’s son, Austin, makes him a deal. If Kareem does his homework for him, he’ll make sure he gets on for spring football. Kareem doesn’t feel good about this, but he’s desperate for a friend and a place to belong. Around the same time a new Syrian family moves into town, but Kareem doesn’t want to be friendly with their son at school for fear of being seen as different. His mom also decides to go to Syria to bring her ailing father and mother back with her, but when the 2017 Muslim Ban goes into effect, they are stuck without a way back to the U.S. Kareem must learn what’s important and to fight for what’s dear to him.
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Can I give a book 10 stars? If I could, I would give @muslimmommyblog MG novel in verse all the ⭐️ I could. This title is timely and shows the effect that 45’s racist comments, laws and executive orders had on so many people in the United States. The football analogy was spot on and even though I cried throughout this read, I will read it again and again to remind myself how important our vote and voice are moving forward, particularly in November. Maybe when some readers put a face, a name, a family to this issue, they will change how they look at immigration issues. I’ll be purchasing this for my middle school library the day it releases September 10.
CW: Islamophobia, racism, bullying, death of a grandparent, grief, xenophobia, hospitalization, anxiety, physical altercation