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Kareem Between

Shifa Saltagi Safadi

Ages: 12+

Published: 2024

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Random House

ISBN: 978-0-593-69926-3

Keywords: Family/School/Community-Muslim ban, Islamophobia, social pressure, cheating, protests, intergenerational

Seventh grader Kareem struggles to reconcile his Syrian heritage with his dream of being an all-American football player. In verse.