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Love from A to Z Hardcover – April 30 2019

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A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
A School Library Journal Best Young Adult Book of 2019
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From William C. Morris Award Finalist S.K. Ali comes an unforgettable romance that is part The Sun Is Also a Star mixed with Anna and the French Kiss, following two Muslim teens who meet during a spring break trip.

A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes—because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together.

An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb’s teacher, who won’t stop reminding the class how “bad” Muslims are.

But Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, isn’t bad. She’s angry.

When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher, and he begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt’s house in Doha, Qatar, for an early start to spring break.

Fueled by the guilt of getting her friends in trouble, she resolves to try out a newer, “nicer” version of herself in a place where no one knows her.

Then her path crosses with Adam’s.

Since he got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in November, Adam’s stopped going to classes, intent, instead, on perfecting the making of things. Intent on keeping the memory of his mom alive for his little sister.

Adam’s also intent on keeping his diagnosis a secret from his grieving father.

Alone, Adam and Zayneb are playing roles for others, keeping their real thoughts locked away in their journals.

Until a marvel and an oddity occurs…

Marvel: Adam and Zayneb meeting.

Oddity: Adam and Zayneb meeting.

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352 pages
Language

English
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Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication date

April 30 2019
Reading age

14 years and up
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13.97 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm
ISBN-10

1534442723
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978-1534442726
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HL740L
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“This book gave me butterflies. Love From A to Z is the bighearted, wildly charming, painfully real love story I’ve been waiting for." -- Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda

"What makes Zayneb and Adam different is not their faith but their ability to learn from and love one another in a world hurling obstacles their way...Heartfelt and powerful." ― Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Heartfelt, honest, and featuring characters readers will fall in love with, this is sure to become a beloved book for many." ― School Library Journal, starred review

"In Love from A to Z, S.K. Ali once again takes an unflinching and moving look at the intricacies of life as a Muslim teen in an imperfect, multi-cultural world. Beautiful." ― Shelf Awareness, starred review

"Told through alternating perspectives, this compelling love story brings together a wide variety of cultures, political issues, and personality types. Readers are immersed in the teens’ world, feeling the frustrations of facing prejudice, the sadness of losing loved ones, the hope that comes from mutual understanding. Ali has created an unforgettable couple in a deftly drawn setting." ― Horn Book Magazine

"Both [main] characters are exceptionally appealing as their well-integrated faith leads them in different ways to seek peace, justice, and each other." ― BCCB

About the Author

S. K. Ali is the author of Saints and Misfits, a finalist for the American Library Association’s 2018 William C. Morris Award and the winner of the APALA Honor Award and Middle East Book Honor Award; and Love from A to Z, a Today show Read with Jenna Book Club selection. Both novels were named best YA books of the year by various media including Entertainment Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. She is also the author of Misfit in Love and Love from Mecca to Medina. You can find Sajidah online at SKAliBooks.com and follow her on Instagram @SKAliBooks, TikTok @SKAliBooks, and on Twitter at @SajidahWrites.

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1. Marvel: Two Saturdays in March

MARVEL: TWO SATURDAYS IN MARCH
ON THE MORNING OF SATURDAY, March 14, fourteen-year-old Adam Chen went to the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.

A thirteenth-century drawing of a tree caught his gaze. It wasn’t particularly striking or artistic. He didn’t know why this tree caused him to stride forward as if magnetized. (When he thinks about it now, his guess is thus: Trees were kind of missing in the landscape he found himself in at the time, and so he was hungry for them.)

Once he got close, he was rewarded with the name of the manuscript that housed this simple tree sketch: The Marvels of Creation and the Oddities of Existence.

He stood there thinking about this grand title for a long moment.

Then something clicked in his mind: Maybe that’s what living is—recognizing the marvels and oddities around you.

From that day, he vowed to record the marvels he knew to be true and the oddities he wished weren’t.

Adam, being Adam, found himself marveling more than ruminating on the weird bits of existing.

We pick up his Marvels and Oddities journal on March 7, four years after that Saturday at the Museum of Islamic Art.

Eighteen now, Adam is a freshman in college, but it’s important to know that he has stopped going to classes two months ago.

He has decided to live.

On the very late evening of Saturday, March 11, sixteen-year-old Zayneb Malik clicked on a link in her desperation to finish a project. She’d promised a Muslim Clothing Through the Ages poster for the Islamic History Fair at the mosque, and it was due in nine hours, give or take a few hours of sleep.

Perhaps it was because of the late hour, but the link was oddly intriguing to a girl looking for thirteenth-century hijab styles: Al-Qazwini’s Catalogue of Life as It Existed in the Islamic World, 1275 AD.

The link opened to an ancient book.

The Marvels of Creation and the Oddities of Existence.

A description of the book followed, but Zayneb could not read on.

“Marvels” and “oddities” perfectly described the reality of her life right then.

The next day, after returning from the history fair (and taking a nap), she began a journal and kept it going for the next two years, recording the wonders and thorns in the garden of her life.

Zayneb, being Zayneb, focused on the latter. She dedicated her journal entries to pruning the prickly overgrowth that stifled her young life.

By the time we meet her at eighteen, she’s become an expert gardener, ready to shear the world.

She’s also just been suspended from school.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (April 30 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1534442723
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1534442726
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 424 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #150,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #113 in Young Adult Fiction on Prejudice & Racism
- #163 in Fiction About Death & Dying for Young Adults
- #355 in Contemporary Romance for Young Adults

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S. K. Ali is the author of "Saints and Misfits", a finalist for the American Library Association's 2018 William C.Morris award, and the winner of the APALA Honor Award and Middle EastBook Honor Award. "Saints and Misfits", and her second novel, "Love from A to Z", were both best YA books of the year as named by Entertainment Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and the American Library Association. "Love from A to Z" was the first teen novel chosen for NBC Today Show's Read with Jenna book club. Her newest novel, "Misfit in Love", was a People Magazine best book of summer 2021. "The Proudest Blue", her picture book co-authored with Ibtihaj Muhammad, was an instant New York Times Bestseller. Along with Aisha Saeed, she's the co-editor of a critically acclaimed anthology of middle grade stories called "Once Upon an Eid".

Interested in a variety of genres and literary forms, S. K. Ali is currently working on books that reflect this love. She can be found on twitter (@sajidahwrites), on instagram (@skalibooks), on TikTok (@skalibooks), and reached through her website's contact page: www.skalibooks.com.

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A Sweet and Memorable read.

Reviewed in Canada on April 14, 2020

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“ Maybe that’s what living is - recognizing the marvels and oddities around you.”

Loved this book. On the surface this is a coming of age love story between Adam and Zayneb. Both keep journals where they log one marvel and one frustration about life every day. They meet on the plane to Doha, Qatar heading home to family for school break. Adam’s dad teaches at the international school and Adam brings with him a burden far heavier than his journal. Zayneb, suspended from her highschool thanks to an Islamophobic teacher, gets an early start to her school break staying with her Aunt who teaches at the same school as Adam’s father.

These two young people navigate the push and pull of friendships and attraction while trying to honour the traditions and the expectations of their Muslim faith. In this modern world their honest efforts to not touch, to minimize eye contact and always have family nearby made their relationship richer somehow and their romance all the sweeter and more endearing.

Yes, the romance pulled me in but there is so much to admire about this read. I loved the way the book is laid out with Adam and Zayneb alternating chapters. We commiserate with Adam when he remembers his mother from his childhood, before MS took her life. We get angry along with Zayneb as she deals with racists and ignorant classmates, her hijab acting as a beacon for Islamophobia. I love when a story educates but never bores the reader. Love from A to Z wins on so many levels.

Many thanks, Farah for reviewing this wonderful primer for those of us aware but unfamiliar with the Muslim faith. Living and working in Toronto I know how my coworkers have struggled with Islamophobia in their day to day lives along with the challenges they face trying to cross borders simply because of their surnames. Canada and the US are nations built on immigration. To stigmatize one group based on their faith or belief system is unacceptable and abhorrent.

Stepping off my soap box, find and read this book. It’s a sweet and memorable read. A wonderful diversion in these pandemic times.

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Sabrina Chowdhury

captivated from start to finish

Reviewed in Canada on June 11, 2022

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This book made me laugh cry smile and all over again, it was a captivating read from start to finish, being a Muslim I loved how Ali represented these characters on her pages, each character had their own personality and by the end I had felt like they were my own friends and I had known them for ages. I wanted to be in their word to know them and learn from them. Simply amazing I fell in love with reading all over again

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A&S

Wonderful coming of age book from a muslim perspective

Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2019

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I'm so happy that youth will be able to find a book so resonating to their struggles as a muslim growing up today. Loved the pace of the book and the perspectives of both protagonists. Thank you for writing this!

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kiran syed

Amazing read!

Reviewed in Canada on October 23, 2020

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I couldn’t put this book down once I started. It was amazing!!!

Reviewed in Canada on December 9, 2020

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AMAZING

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I wanted more from this. Love! ♥

Reviewed in Canada on July 23, 2019

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4.75*

I think it is my highest rated book of the year and it's not perfect as I try to explain a little bit throughout my review.

Main reasons I was drawn to this book is the blue cover but mostly the fact that a character deals with MS, an illness that I am dealing with since 2009.

I am giving the book an almost perfect rating because on MS alone, you can tell there was research done as it isn't a simple one. MS is complicated to booth; not one person feels it the same as someone else and I liked that there was a spot at the end explaining all this. Very nice touch. And even though I'm not the target audience for this due to the bigger plot, all about Muslim teens falling in love and what it enthails (which I cannot relate or appreciate to it's right value) and what they have to deal with (Zayneb) with racism/Islamophobia.

After saying I cannot appreciate the true value of this, I loved how it was written, the flow of it felt really good. Two point of views written in first person and parts of both by way of a journal of sorts. I definitely prefered when the stories didn't join together... meaning that I liked Zayneb's separate life and dealings with people, family, school and general life. Same with Adam dealing with repercussions of his illness and history with his mother living with it and questions and doubts about the future.

Surprisingly enough, I was more drawn towards Zayneb's story so I basically did a 180 on what got me interested in the book in the first place. And I'm actually happy about it. Not that Adam's isn't interesting or important... all the contrary! We actually need more stories and characters that deal with MS. Such a complicated one it is, it's crazy. I feel like a broken record as I already said so above.

Zayneb is a very strong character who has to fight for her values and rights and deal with her teacher's and a lot of other people's racism/Islamophobia. Basically, it's mostly all about misundertanding and the general human being tends to hate what they don't understand/is different than who/what he/she is. It's fact!

The love story was really cute none the less but I wanted more about Muslim and what it is and all. The closer I was getting to the end, I wondered many times if there would be a sequel to the book but the way it ended, basically like a fairytale of "... and they lived happily ever after..." left me on my hunger somehow. it is still a really cool story and I'm glad I requested it. I recommend it whole heartedly!!

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BEST BOOK I’VE READ

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 29, 2020

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One of the best books I’ve ever read! I’m a big fan or romance and this was just randomly suggested to me on an app after I had read tatbilb 2 and omgggg god bless cookies and algorithm and the spy in my phone because this book was perfect for me. I’ve never read a book that has muslim characters without them compromising their faith or coming across as oppressed. This book was nothing like that it was just two normal teens falling in love that just happened to be Muslim with a dash of drama lives. It was so heartwarming and cute, it made me laugh, it made me cry. It was so relatable, zayneb was so relatable and the way her and adam’s love story went was so true to the Muslim experience. It was such good representation. Overall absolutely loved it !!

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A beautiful and touching love story about two Muslim teens

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2020

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This book is absolutely stunning and it touched my heart so deeply. It's one of the most beautiful love stories I've ever read, it feels so raw and real. It deals with lots of important things, it's hard-hitting and difficult to read at times, but it's also interwoven with so much hope.
An absolutely stunning book that's unlike any other YA that I've read. I recommend!!!

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Melissa

Wow

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2020

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Wow, just wow. This is one of the best YA fiction books I have read in a while. The way that the themes of MS, grief, loss, racism and friendships are dealt with in such a nuanced and beautiful manner. This book also opened my eyes to a part of Islam and Muslim culture that I did not know about before. I just hope one day I will find the A to my Z

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Wafaa S

Love Adam and Zaynab! 🥺💕

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2020

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One of the best books ever! I love finding the rare gem of a great characters and this one has muslims portrayed in such a beautiful way! Adore this book so much I gave it to my nieces to read best author ever!

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Love from 5 out 5 stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2019

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This book was EVERYTHING!! I enjoyed the frustrating romance between these two couple.

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