![]() While sitting at the airport reading through numerous online hateful comments from other students at her school, she meets Adam.Īdam Chen converted to Islam at the age of 11. With the suspension adding an extra week to spring break, her parents allow her to visit her aunt in Doha, Qatar, earlier than planned. ![]() ![]() He targets her especially because she is a hijabi and therefore a visible Muslim. When we meet 18-year-old Zayneb Malik, she has just been suspended for standing up to Fencer, her Islamophobic teacher. Love from A to Z takes what seems like just another adorable teenage love story and pushes it to a whole new level by infusing it with the painful and heavy experience of enduring Islamophobia – more importantly it manages to tackle both topics without being saccharine or careless. Publisher: Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. ![]()
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