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Darius the Great is not okay

Darius the Great is not ok (other title)

Khorram, Adib (author.).

Summary: Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian -- half, his mom's side -- and his first ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Then Darius meets Sohrab, the boy next door, and everything changes. Soon, they're spending their days together, playing soccer, eating faludeh, and talking for hours on a secret rooftop overlooking the city's skyline. Sohrab calls him Darioush -- the original Farsi version of his name -- and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he's Darioush to Sohrab. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Adib Khorram's brilliant debut is for anyone who's ever felt not good enough -- then met a friend who makes them feel so much better than okay.

Record details

ISBN: 0525552979
ISBN: 9780525552970
ISBN: 0525553800
ISBN: 9780525553809
ISBN: 0525552960
ISBN: 9780525552963
Physical Description: 314 pages ; 22 cm
print
Publisher: New York, NY : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:	HL710L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader UG 4.7 10.0 Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.7 10 198253.
Awards Note:	A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.) Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature Winner, 2019 Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Honor, 2019 Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018 Lambda Literary Award Nominee for LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult, 2019 New York Public Library Best Books for Teens, 2018 New York Public Library Best Books for Teens: Top Ten, 2018 Publisher's Weekly Best Young Adult Book, 2018 Rainbow Book List, 2019 William C. Morris Young Adult Debut Award Winner, 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2019 YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2019