{"id":10147,"date":"2019-01-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2019-01-05T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T19:10:04","slug":"why-now-karma-khullars-mustache-by-kristi-wientge-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10147","title":{"rendered":"Why now? Karma Khullar’s Mustache, by Kristi Wientge (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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17 dark hairs on her upper lip?
Middle school starts Monday!
What to do<\/a>!?!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her big brother wants a mustache, not 11 year old Karma, but it looks like she is taking after her Punjabi father instead of her blonde mother – and the boys in her grade won’t stop teasing her about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author grew up in an Ohio neighborhood like Karma’s before traveling the world and now lives with her Sikh husband and their children in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can we do as individuals to keep teasing from becoming bullying?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Karma Khullar’s Mustache \/ Kristi Wientge. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, hardcover 2017, paperback 2018. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Karma is the only girl at middle school with dark hairs on her upper lip, the only person who brings dal and chappatis for lunch, the only one with a stay-at-home PhD dad – and now her best friend has moved into the popular crowd\u2026 so alone with her problems, her worries about the mustache, her sadness after grandmother’s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her blonde mother won’t have advice about getting rid of this mustache, even if she weren’t so busy with her new job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her big brother is too busy arguing with Daddy about not becoming a doctor to ever see Karma’s problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half-Sikh<\/a>, half-Methodist, all confused when her teacher asks Karma to tutor the new girl who stole away her best friend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n



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