After her father, a self-proclaimed king of a Middle Eastern country is killed in a coup, Laila, her mother and younger brother find themselves in a strange land, a suburb of Washington DC. This well written novel shares her confusion over her new, more permissive lifestyle, her efforts to make friends at school and the feeling that her mother is plotting to return to their home country. -- Louisa A.

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Scottsdale Pulbic Library