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Khorram, Adib.
DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY
New York : Dial Books, 2018
IL YA
ISBN 9780525552963

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Winner of the William C. Morris Debut Award and Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature Darius is struggling to fit in and find his place in the world. He’s also suffering from clinical depression. When he and his family travel to Iran to visit relatives, Darius finally starts to understand what it means to be truly okay with himself. This is a really moving story about identity, self-love, friendship, and family. You’re going to laugh, cry, find out a lot about tea, and fall in love with Darius the Great is Not Okay. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2019-2020)

Booktalk #2

Darius Kellner learns to deal with a disappointed father, depression, friendship, and his half-Persian heritage in this hopeful story. 
(Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2020)

SUBJECTS:   Friendship -- Fiction.
                        Grandparents -- Fiction.
                        Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
                        Iranian Americans -- Fiction.
                        Americans -- Iran -- Fiction.
                        Iran -- Fiction.

 
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