Amina’s Voice is a perfectly pitched middle-grade novel about families, friendship and faith. Amina loves piano and singing, her brother Mustafa is into basketball. Both of them manage to balance their interests and school life with the expectations of their Muslim-American parents: good grades and regular attendance at their local mosque. But Amina’s best friend Soojin is  changing her Korean name and hanging out with a former mean girl. Her strict Pakistani uncle disapproves of her interest in music. Amina begins to doubt herself until a devastating attack on their local mosque brings the community together in an unexpected and very welcome way.
This is a sweet, warm and very readable novel of everyday life in a Muslim American household told in (appropriately) a charming, believable middle-grade voice. 9+
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