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	Sarn, Amelie. I LOVE I HATE I MISS MY SISTER New York : Delacorte Press, 2014 IL YA ISBN 0385743769
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Two sisters are very different but very close.  Sohane is in her last year of high school and is very serious about her studies.  Her sister Djelila is a year younger and loves playing basketball, wearing tight jeans and makeup.  And her boyfriend.  The girls live in France in a housing project with many other Muslim refugees.  France has outlawed the wearing of head scarves by Muslim girls in school.  But Sohane decides that she wants to wear one and is expelled from school when she refuses to take it off.  On the other side of the issue, Djelila is being harassed by the boys in the housing complex for being too modern.  The two side of the issue lead to a tragic outcome.
	SUBJECTS:     Death -- Fiction.                         Muslims -- Fiction.                         Sisters -- Fiction.

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