Title
Here to Stay
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9781616207007
Pages
265 pages
Genre
Realism
Format
Novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.
Grade Level
6-8; 9-12
Lexile Measure
HL690L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Culture/Ethnicity; Family member death; Single parent; Bicultural; single mother; death of father; bicultural child
Main Character
Male teenager
Race/Ethnicities
Arab American
Keywords
basketball; cyberbullying; high school; racial discrimination; prejudice
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Farizan, Sara, "Here to Stay" (2018). Diverse Families. 2149.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/2149