Not to mention she hates all the other stereotypes people have about Lebanese Muslims (to be perfectly honest I don't think many people know the difference between a Lebanese Muslim and an Iraqi Muslim so she should just say Muslims in general or Middle Eastern people), including that they all work for Osama Bin Laden and ride camels in the desert, etc. Jamilah (I will be referring to Jamie/Jamilah as Jamilah throughout the rest of the review) hates ten things about herself, they include her attraction to a guy who is a popular jerk, her "boring looks" and the fact that she hypothetically can't get a pilot's license or own a fertilizer without being blacklisted due to her Muslim Lebanese background. At the moment I'm a rarely used font in a microscopic size with no shading of emphasis." Jamilah pg.
Stand out bold, italicized, and underlined. Use exclamation marks and highlighter pens on all my sentences. IQ "I wish I could talk in capital letters at school. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah (UK version) 2007 The listener becomes a part of the family and roots for Jamie to discover a pride in her heritage and a belief in her own strength." (AudioFile Magazine) The personalities of Jamie's hang-loose 18-year-old brother, her tired immigrant father, who speaks in broken English, and her rhetoric-spouting revolutionary sister sound authentic. She soon settles into the material, however, and delivers an engaging, energized performance, easily handling a multitude of characters of different ethnic backgrounds, social classes, and ages. At the beginning of the book, Rebecca Macauley's characterization of teenage conversation is too loud and brash.
"This coming-of-age story chronicles the world of Jamie, an Australian teenager of Lebanese Muslim descent, who struggles with peer pressure and racism at school and with her widowed father's rules at home. "A warm and loving portrait of family life.
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