Title: WaveBook List: Asian Voices in Teen Fiction, Teen Life: Middle School Stories, Teen Tearjerkers (Bring Tissues!)
Published by: Harry N. Abrams
Release Date: 2022
Author: Diana Farid
Genre: Teen
Pages: 320
ISBN13: 9781951836580
Add on GoodreadsA coming-of-age novel in verse set in 1980s Southern California, about a Persian American girl who rides the waves, falls, and finds her way back to the shore
Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in—her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother’s footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix’s past lymphoma surges back, not even surfing, singing, or poetry can keep them afloat, threatening Ava’s hold on the one place and the one person that make her feel like she belongs. With ocean-like rhythm and lyricism, Wave is about a girl who rides the waves, tumbles, and finds her way back to the shore.
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