Ten Things I Hate About Me

Review: 10 Things I Hate about Me

A 16-year-old Australian-Muslim-Lebanese teen wonders who she really is as she straddles two cultural realities. Since her mother died, Jamilah's overly protective Lebanese father imposes strict curbs on her social life while her hijab-wearing older sister is totally absorbed in political causes and her brother enjoys the freedom she's denied. Jamilah attends madrasa where she studies Arabic and plays the darabuka drums in a student band, but she leads a double life. Desperate to fit in at her high school, where she's known as Jamie, Jamilah dyes her hair blond, wears blue contact lenses, avoids getting close to anyone and is determined no one discover her true heritage. Longing to be respected for who she is, Jamilah knows "it takes guts to command that respect and deal with people's judgments." She recounts her travails in a chatty first-person, present-tense narration that's punctuated by transcripts of her e-mail conversations with a boy she knows only as John and whose friendship helps her find her way. Written with insight, humor and sensitivity, Abdel-Fattah introduces a winning Muslim-Australian heroine who discovers that "honesty is liberating." (Fiction. 12-16)

ten things i hate about me is another thought-provoking and compelling tale by randa fattah she is a very dedicated writer and i had enjoyed reading her books and would recomend them to 10+
ten things i hate about me is about Lebanese-Australian Jamilah who is known in her school as australian jamie she hides her hertage from her friends and classmates by dying her hair and wearing contacts
when her conflicted feelings become too stronge for her will she bear it or will she crumble and tell her classmates the truth even if it means that they would hate her 

Review: Ten Things I Hate About Me

This is a booktalk... This book takes place in Australia, which for us makes it multicultural in a couple of ways. This is about a girl who lives a double life. At school she is blond, blue-eyed ... Read full review

Review: Ten Things I Hate About Me

I'm not sure about this book, I've heard a lot of conflicting opinions on it but I do have a soft spot for Aussie Lit, so I don't know. Also I read the author's bio and she says she is of Muslim ... Read full review

Review: Ten Things I Hate About Me

Nice story about Jamilah, a Lebanese muslim girl who is afraid to reveal her heritage to her Australian classmates for fear of being bullied. Instead she anglicises her name, dies her hair and wears ...

Review: Ten Things I Hate About Me

Ten Things is about me is about a teenager girl from southern Sydney who's a Lebanese-Muslim and very proud of her cultural identity. She lives two lives and tries so hard to keep them separate. She ... Read full review

Review: 10 Things I Hate about Me

Gr 7 Up— Lebanese-Australian Jamilah has two lives. At school she is blond-haired, blue-eyed (thanks to contact lenses) Jamie. At home she is Jamilah, a rebellious, but dutiful, daughter of a strict ... Read full review

Review: 10 Things I Hate about Me

Jamilah Towfeek hides her Lebanese-Muslim background from the other kids at her Australian school “to avoid people assuming I fly planes into buildings as a hobby.” She dyes her hair blonde, wears ... Read full review