Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Jamie or Jamilah is a high school girl living in Australia with her father, brother and sister. At school, she is Jamie the blonde haired, blue-eyed girl in the “almost popular” group and the girl the most popular guy in school has a crush on. Once she leaves school though, she is Jamilah a Lebanese-Muslim girl who has dyed her brown locks out of rebellion, wears blue contacts to look cool and must abide by her father’s strict Curfew Charter that is hanging on the fridge that includes never hanging out with guys outside of school or family supervision. Jamie cannot talk to anyone about her double-life until she meets a boy named John on the internet who is leading a double life elsewhere in Australia. Jamie tells John all about her struggles to balance her Lebanese culture and her identity at school. John also becomes the person she turns to as her double lives become more and more complicated to keep separate and seem to be heading for a collision!
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