

Samira's Worst Best Summer
Author: Nina Hamza
Narrator: Rasha Zamamiri
Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 05/14/2024
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Bullying
Author: Nina Hamza
Narrator: Rasha Zamamiri
Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 05/14/2024
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Bullying
Nina Hamza is a writer and physician who lives in Minnesota. She struggles with math, calculating time zones, and parking. She is the author of Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year. Her favorite part of being a writer has been meeting kids who learned something from her books that she hadn't even intended. Visit her online at ninahamza.com.
This cover!! And the story on the inside matches the outside. CW: gaslighting, bullying Samira's Worst Best Summer is yet another one of my attempts to keep up with 2024 middle grade releases. Although it wasn't high on my radar, I'm glad that I decided to pick it up. The story follows main character......more
I love the cover. The writing is okay. The plot seems familiar. Love the representation. I find the trying to fit in kind of struggles and finding real friends in the story quite realistic. Will be good for beginners and younger middle grade audience.......more
Look, how can you NOT judge a book by this cover? It is gorgeous! Middle Grade books always get the most beautiful covers (or maybe it’s that I have the aesthetic of a tween girl). The characters are just as engaging and stunning as the cover. I loved Samira as well as her whole family, especially U......more
The first 15% of this 336 page book were rough, the internalized Islamophobia/othering, the excessive discussion of Halloween and being toilet papered, but then I don't know, something suddenly changed, and I was hooked. There really is no plot, the reader just spends the summer with Samira, the hi......more
Samira's Summer is not what she expected. Her best friend is bullying her and Samira wants to sulk and hide all Summer in her room but there is always something to be done. Her parents and older sister leave for India to attend a wedding and Samira stays home with her grandmother and younger brother......more