The garden of my imaan

By F. Zia

Subjects: Self-acceptance, Toleration, fiction, Islam, Family life, fiction, Families, Muslims, fiction, Customs and practices, Toleration, Schools, fiction, East Indian Americans, Fiction, Children's fiction, Islam, fiction, Muslims, School stories, Juvenile fiction, Self-acceptance, fiction, Schools, Family life, Self-acceptance in adolescence

Description: The arrival of new student Marwa, a fellow sixth-grader who is a strict Muslim, helps Aliya come to terms with her own lukewarm practice of the faith and her embarrassment over others' reactions to their beliefs.