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Gr 7 Up—Nida Siddiqui is a Pakistani American Muslim teen navigating between her passion as an activist poet and her mother's fear for her safety. While praying in the park, she is accosted by police and local political candidate Mitchell Wilson, then frisked for being a "threat" simply because she wears a hijab. Her dignity unraveled, Nida pours her rage onto the page via a private poetry letter in her journal to Wilson. Unbeknownst to her, someone sends it to a national poetry contest, which she wins, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More