Call Me Adnan

  Reem Faruqi, award-winning author of Unsettled and Golden Girl, has written her third novel in verse about a tween boy, Adnan, training for a big table tennis championship and dreaming of a fun-filled family trip to sunny Florida for the event. But when tragedy strikes, Adnan and his family must cope with a terrible loss and come together as one again. This is a poignant, inspirational story about a Pakistani American family learning to heal after the death of a loved one. Adnan Zakir loves table tennis. One thing he doesn’t like is losing. He’s colorblind, left-handed, and has a fondness for the aviation alphabet. He's super close with his sister, Aaliyah, who is a great dancer and memorizer of the Quran, and he loves his little toddler brother, Rizwan, who only wants to grow up and play table tennis like his big brother.  All Adnan dreams of is to make it to the Ultimate Table Tennis Championship in Florida, but first he must qualify at his local Atlanta playoffs. Adnan’s cousins l