A girl like that

By Tanaz Bhathena

Subjects: Bullying, fiction, East Indians, Religion, Dating (social customs), fiction, High schools, Middle east, fiction, Dating (Social customs), Bullying, Rape, fiction, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Rape, Schools

Description: In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.