You're Not Proper [Paperback]

Karen think shes not proper white. Her dad is Pakistani and her mother is white Christian, and somehow she feels as if she doesnt quite fit in . . . anywhere. So shes made a choice: shes switching sides. Shes going to convert to Islam to try to find her true identity.A topical tale of two Muslin schoolgirls in search of belonging and their attempt to come to terms with religious and social identity. Set against a backdrop of seething Islamaphobia.Winner of the Frances Lincoln Diversity Voices Children Book Award.