Saints and Misfits (Book 1) by S.K. Ali (An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of the Year)

Saints and Misfits—a William C. Morris Award finalist and is a “timely and authentic” (School Library Journal, starred review) debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life…starring a Muslim teen.

There are three kinds of people in my world:

1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in your face so much, you can’t see them, like how you can’t see your nose.

2. Misfits, people who don’t belong. Like me—the way I don’t fit into Dad’s brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mama’s-Boy-Muhammad.

Also, there’s Jeremy and me. Misfits. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we don’t go together. Same planet, different worlds.

But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right?

3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O’Connor’s stories.

Like the monster at my mosque.

People think he’s holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask.

Except me.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (June 12, 2018)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1481499254

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1481499255

Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up

Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ HL710L

Grade level ‏ : ‎ 9 - 12

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.87 x 5.55 x 8.19 inches