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Ten Things I Hate About Me


Playaway Young Adult

No. of pages 320

Published: 2007

Great for age 12-18 years

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At school I'm Aussie-blonde Jamie - one of the crowd. At home I'm Muslim Jamilah - driven mad by my Stone Age dad. I should win an Oscar for my acting skills. But I can't keep it up for much longer.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is part of a book series called Playaway Young Adult .

There are 320 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2007 by Scholastic .

Randa Abdel-Fattah was born in Australia to Egyptian-Palestinian parents and lives in Sydney with her family where she is a practicing lawyer. Her previous books, Does My Head Look Big in This (2005) and Ten Things I Hate About Me (2009), received wide critical acclaim.

 

This book is in the following series:

Playaway Young Adult

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Audiofile Earphones Award
This book was recognised by the Audiofile Earphones Award.

Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers
This book was recognised by the Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers.

Redbridge Children's Book Award
This book was recognised by the Redbridge Children's Book Award.