It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Non Wels
Written by Firoozeh Dumas
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
2019-2020 Nominee - Middle School/Junior High
Synopsis
Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block . . . for the fourth time. California's Newport Beach is her family's latest perch, and she's determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name—Cindy.
It's the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes more difficult as Iran makes U.S. headlines with protests, revolution, and finally the taking of American hostages.