ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM GIRL

If sixteen-year-old Allie Abraham's life seems perfect, it's because she's engineered it that way. She's on the cheerleading squad, has a great relationship with her parents, is respected by her teachers, and has her first boyfriend, quirky, thoughtful Wells Henderson. But type-A Allie secretly feels like an outsider. Why? She's Muslim.

Neither her boyfriend nor her classmates know the truth about her heritage she's worked hard to make her blonde hair a sufficient distraction, and her secular house is pointedly devoid of religious signifiers. However, after a terrorist attack strikes close to home, Allie decides to stop hiding behind her white privilege. But embracing the religious heritage she knows little about comes with a price.

Inspired by the author's own experiences as a Muslim-American, ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM GIRL is a coming-of-age story about the struggles of feeling caught between two worlds, and difficulties of being a modern Muslim teenager trying to pass as "just like everybody else."

Nadine Jolie Courtney is a journalist and editor whose work has appeared in Town & Country, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Robb Report, GQ, and Angeleno. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and Bravo. A graduate of Barnard College, she is author of the YA novel Romancing the Throne, as well as Confessions of a Beauty Addict and the bestselling beauty guide Beauty Confidential. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her family.