A review by willa_s
Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

3.0

National Book Award Finalist. All the cards were stacked against this poor book bc I hate football and I was beginning to lose my mind that so many of the nominated YA books were in verse. Kareem’s family navigating the Muslim ban is really the heart of the story and that part did have my crying on the bus home from school. Kareem himself is a beautifully done character as well. I did find the football analogies to be a bit much and I’m slightly of the belief that this would have been more powerful as standard prose, but all in all a good surprise.