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Saedi, Sara.
AMERICANIZED : REBEL WITHOUT A GREEN CARD
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
IL YA
ISBN   9781524717797

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Describing puberty as “the equivalent of guerrilla warfare on your body” and the “everything totally sucks and I hate my life phase,” Sara is a pretty typical teenager in America. She worries about pimples, getting a date to the prom, and being totally annoyed by her overprotective parents and her Muslim grandmother. She also has the added fear of being deported, finding out just before she turned 13 that she is undocumented. Sara’s recollections of her family life are laugh-out-loud funny (like that one time she broke her vagina) and she shares the challenges of struggling to balance “between two worlds and cultures without offending either side.” Her journey to citizenship is not an easy one, but her love of her family, their heritage, and America is heartwarming. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2019-2020)


SUBJECTS:    Saedi, Sara.
                        Iranian Americans -- Biography.
                        Family life -- California.
                        Immigrants -- Biography.
                        Illegal aliens -- Biography.
                        California -- History -- 20th century.

 
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