The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan

b>Mona learns to find her voice over the course of a year that sees her immigrating from Dubai to Canada in this novel for fans of Front Desk by Kelly Yang./b>br>br>Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when the first Gulf War breaks out in 1991. The war isn’t what she expects;-- “We didn’t even get any days off school! Just my luck”;-- especially when the ground offensive is over so quickly and her family peels the masking tape off their windows. Her parents, however, fear there is no peace in the region, and it sparks a major change in their lives.br>;br>Over the course of one year, Mona falls in love, speaks up to protect her younger sister, loses her best friend to the new girl at school, has summer adventures with her cousins in Pakistan, immigrates to Canada, and pursues her ambition to be a feminist and a poet.;br>;

Product details

• Authors: Salma Hussain, Hussain Salma
• Publisher: Tundra Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 14
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2022
• EAN: 9780735271494
• ISBN: 978-0-7352-7149-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 217 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / General, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics