By Zoulfa Katouh (author)
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What if you felt like you'd cried all the colours away?
The heart-wrenching new story of friendship, loss and identity from the author of international bestseller As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow . An unputdownable story about family, friendship, grief and trust from a masterful writer of the genre.
Joining an exclusive high school should be a fresh start for Jihad after her mother’s sudden death. But she's the only Muslim student there; her hijab and even her name make her new classmates suspicious.
Only one person treats her with kindness but Jihad can’t help questioning his motives. It’s hard to trust anyone when she meets indifference or hostility all around her. As tension mounts, she finds refuge in an old sketchbook and in the stories her mama used to tell her.
She is determined to focus on making it to art school and a brighter future, but as she starts illustrating her mother’s memories, her canvas becomes bigger than she could ever have imagined. Can Jihad become as resilient as the true meaning of her name, and let the colour back into her life?An unputdownable story about family, friendship, grief and trust from a masterful writer of the genre.
Zoulfa Katouh is a Canadian writer with Syrian roots. A trilingual pharmacist, currently pursuing a master's in drug sciences, Zoulfa is the first Syrian author to be published in both the US and the UK in the young adult category.
When she's not talking to herself in the woodland forest, she's drinking iced coffee, baking aesthetic cookies and cakes, and telling everyone who will listen about how BTS paved the way. A dream of hers is to get Kim Nam-joon to read one of her books. As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow is her debut novel.
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What if you felt like you'd cried all the colours away? The heart-wrenching new story of friendship, loss and identity from the author of international bestseller As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue and determined it is suitable for children aged 15-18 years old
The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue features in the following genres: Featured Books for Young Adults, Recommendations, School Stories, World Religions, PSHE: Multiculturalism, Diversity and Inclusion, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Art and Design, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Educational: Arts, general, Educational material
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The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue was written by Zoulfa Katouh and published by Bloomsbury Young Adult an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue has 347 pages
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