Aarzu All Around

by Marzieh Abbas

A cricket-loving Pakistani girl stifled by patriarchal expectations disguises herself as a boy to get a job to pay her sister's medical bills in this empowering middle grade novel-in-verse.

Living with her aunt and patriarchal uncle in Karachi, Pakistan, recently orphaned twelve-year-old Aarzu detests the way she and her younger sister get treated like extras and excluded from all the fun stuff. Aarzu dreams of playing cricket, just...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1665970413
• ISBN13: 9781665970419
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7