Omar Rising
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · August 29, 2023
In this compelling companion to New York Times bestseller Amal Unbound, Omar contends with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school.
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- Who it’s for
- Omar’s hopes at an elite school meet a system built to make scholarship students fail.
- Genres
- School Stories, Prejudice & Racism, Middle Eastern & Arab American Stories
- Published
- Penguin Young Readers Group, August 29, 2023
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In this compelling companion to New York Times bestseller Amal Unbound, Omar contends with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school. When Omar gets a scholarship to the prestigious Ghalib Academy, it’s a game changer. It will give him, the son of a servant, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a better future—and his whole village is cheering him on.
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Omar can’t wait to dive into his classes, play soccer, and sign up for astronomy club—but those hopes are dashed when he learns first-year scholarship students can’t join clubs or teams; instead, they must earn their keep by doing chores. Even worse, it turns out the school deliberately “weeds out” scholarship kids by requiring them to get grades that are nearly impossible. Omar is devastated to find such odds stacked against him, but the injustice of it all motivates him to try to do something else that seems impossible: change a rigged system.
Unequal Terms
Omar’s hopes at an elite school meet a system built to make scholarship students fail.
Come here for
- A scholarship student’s hopes for classes, soccer, and astronomy club
- A school story attentive to prejudice and unequal rules
Expect
- Everyday school ambitions set against deliberate barriers
- A determined challenge to rules stacked against him
Where it sits
| School Stories | 48% |
|---|---|
| Middle Eastern & Arab American Stories | 25% |
| Prejudice & Racism | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Stories Set in the Middle East
- School Stories
- Prejudice & Racism
- Authors
- Aisha Saeed
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- August 29, 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Stories Set in the Middle East