Saints and Misfitsa William C. Morris Award finalist and an Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of the Yearis a timely and authentic (School Library Journal, starred review) debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Lifestarring a Muslim teen.There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. Theyre in your face so much, you cant see them, like how you cant see your nose. 2. Misfits, people who dont belong. Like methe way I dont fit into Dads brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mamas-Boy-Muhammad. Also, theres Jeremy and me. Misfits. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we dont go together. Same planet, different worlds. But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right? 3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery OConnors stories. Like the monster at my mosque. People think hes holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask. Except me.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is part of a book series called Saints And Misfits .

This book is aimed at children at US 9th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 14 years.

There are 336 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 2018 by Simon & Schuster .

Other contributors include Sandhya Menon, S. K. Ali, Rin Chupeco, Anna-Marie McLemore, Rebecca Roanhorse, Sara Farzian, Jay Coles, Adi Alsaid, Sangu Mandanna, Phoebe North, and Karuna Riazi.