{"id":14676,"date":"2025-04-07T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14676"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:05:30","slug":"f-is-for-fashion-faith-feminism-any-way-you-look-by-maleeha-siddiqui-mg-fiction-a2z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14676","title":{"rendered":"F is for fashion, friendship & faith ANY WAY YOU LOOK, by Maleeha Siddiqui (MG fiction) #A2Z"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summer means time for fun,
time with her friends,
time to work in her mom’s custom clothing shop at last! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aspiring designer Ainy is eager to build up her portfolio of modest fashions and give her Amma more time to make the stylish saris, dresses, and salwar kameez so popular with the Southeastern Asian women in their Virginia suburb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her grandmother’s cancer took dad back to Pakistan for a time, so the new shop must succeed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So busy now! Friend time with Safiya goes down, and stress about their biggest client’s son Yasir harassing her goes up. Maybe if Ainy starts wearing the hijab now, instead of on the first day of 7th grade, he’ll stop noticing her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amma says Ainy can design the bridesmaids’ dresses for Yasir’s sister – will she finish in time?
Is her crush on Izyann immodest for a good Muslim girl, even when boys and girls don’t hang out?
Big sister Bajjo suddenly stops wearing the hijab – why? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dressmaking deadlines, financial worries, wondering if she’s choosing to wear the hijab for the right reasons\u2026
Any way you look, this will be a different summer than Ainy expected!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the author of Barakah Beats<\/em>, recommended here at https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12568<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When have you had to decide to follow your friends’ lead or not?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info: Any Way You Look \/ Maleeha Siddiqui. Scholastic Press, 2024. [author site https:\/\/www.maleehasiddiqui.com\/books-1<\/a>] [publisher site https:\/\/tradecatalog.scholastic.com\/tradecatalog\/any-way-you-look-9781339010267.html#key-details<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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