The Weight of Our Sky

by Hanna Alkaf

Book Overview

A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut. Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother's death unless she adheres...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1534426086
• ISBN13: 9781534426085
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for You
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12