The Beauty of Us
ISBN-13: 9781778523250
Author(s): Farzana Doctor
Subjects: Children's Fiction
Publisher: Ecw Press
Publisher Imprint: Ecw Press Digital
Publication Date: 17-09-2024
Format: Ebook
Availability: In stock
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About the book
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September 1984, Thornton College private school.
After 15-year-old Zahabiya s father remarries, she can t wait to leave home and convinces him to send her away to boarding school. But will she fit in? She joins a clique of smart students but isn t sure if she measures up or how to read the mixed messages from a guy she s crushing on.
Seventeen-year-old Leesa has been at Thornton since middle school after her parents messy divorce. She s been climbing the school s social ladder with equal measures of meanness and manipulation. She s also guarding a big secret that she has to work overtime to keep from her friends.
Fresh out of university, this is Nahla s first real teaching job, and she s drowning. She has her distractions though: the flirty art teacher and a cryptic notebook left behind by her deceased predecessor, Mademoiselle Leblanc.
Zahabiya and her friends all racialized girls and victims of Leesa s bullying uncover Leesa s secret. But can they help Leesa? Nahla, too, is embroiled in her own mystery, assisted by Mademoiselle Leblanc s ghost. Each is indelibly changed by what they learn.
Masterfully crafted, The Beauty of Us is a gripping novel about surviving hardship, the power of friendship, and growing up.
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