“I'd moved enough times now to know that time was a fleeting, exhaustible thing. I didn't want to waste it.”
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It s 2002, a year after 9/11, and Shirin has just started at yet another school. It s an extremely turbulent time for the world, but especially for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year old Muslim girl who s tired of being stereotyped. But then she meets Ocean James. He s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin.
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Tahereh Mafi
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