Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card - Sara Saedi 电子书mobi+epub
Product details
Teens > Biographies > Cultural Heritage
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (February 6, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1524717797
ISBN-13: 978-1524717797
Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card Hardcover – February 6, 2018
by Sara Saedi (Author)
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Product details
Teens > Biographies > Cultural Heritage
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (February 6, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1524717797
ISBN-13: 978-1524717797
The hilarious, poignant, true story of one teen's experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East.
At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number.
Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being a teenager. She desperately wanted a green card, along with clear skin, her own car, and a boyfriend.
From discovering that her parents secretly divorced to facilitate her mother's green card application to learning how to tame her unibrow, Sara pivots gracefully from the terrifying prospect that she might be kicked out of the country to the almost-as-terrifying possibility that she might be the only one without a date to the prom. This moving, often hilarious story is for anyone who has ever shared either fear.
Review
"Filled with pop culture references, journal excerpts, photographs, and relatable coming-of-age content, this book will keep readers fully entertained while pushing them to deeper cultural understandings. "—School Library Journal, starred review
"This irresistible and timely memoir is hard to put down."—Booklist, starred review
"With gumption, Saedi draws from her American-ness and Iranian-ness for a successful depiction of immigrant life in the U.S.: a must-read."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"This is an encounter with a family that many readers will understand and others will long to be a part of, and it may inspire them to reconsider and chronicle their own family tales."—Bulletin, starred review
About the Author
Sara Saedi was born in Tehran, Iran smack-dab in the middle of a war and an Islamic Revolution. She received a B.A. in Film and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley and began her career as a creative executive for ABC Daytime. Since then she's penned three TV movies for ABC Family and a pilot for the Disney Channel, won a Daytime Emmy for What If..., a web series she wrote for ABC, and worked as a staff writer on the FOX sitcom The Goodwin Games. She is also the author of a YA duology, Never Ever and The Lost Kids, published by Viking. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and pug, where she writes for the hit CW show iZombie. Learn more on Twitter at @saaaranotsarah or at SaraSaediWriter.com
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