Growing up Muslim in Australia

✨ "Twelve authentic and powerful stories about growing up Muslim in Australia ✨🌏
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Beauty queen 👑, kickboxer 🥊, lawyer ⚖️, Rugby League star 🏉, activist ✊, writer 📝, lesbian 🌈, atheist 🚫 – the contributors to this collection show the diversity of the Muslim experience and the influence of culture, family, and gender in shaping identity.

🤔🌏These stories by known and unknown Australian Muslims peel back the stereotypes to reveal funny and touching experiences that will connect with readers. They explore body image, gender, romance, career, faith, football, friendship, and family, and the challenges of growing up in multicultural Australia. 📖✨💖

‘Growing up Muslim in Australia is the kind of book that will change how readers look at the world...Coloured with many shades of humor, warmth, sadness, anger, determination, and honesty, it will resonate with readers from all backgrounds and beliefs.’ Bookseller + Publisher 🌈📖

Shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Award for Information Books and was selected by the Grattan Institute for the 2015 Summer Reading List for Prime Minister. 🏆📚

Teaching notes written by Amra Pajalic. Suitable to be used in the classroom to teach own voices texts and to support memoir writing. 
Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, an editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage and is available for talks and presentations about growing up Muslim, as well as memoir writing or writing workshops. 🗣️💬 
🔗 https://www.amrapajalic.com/book-me.html

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