My first American friend, Chelsea Hartt-Baudhuin, who said those eight words, “Do you want to eat lunch with me?” It changed everything.

About the Author

Photo by Mariam Shakeel

REEM FARUQI is the award-winning author of the ALA Notable Children’s Book Lailah’s Lunchbox as well as Amira’s Picture Day and I Can Help. Of Pakistani descent, Reem immigrated to Peachtree City, Georgia, in the United States from the United Arab Emirates when she was thirteen years old. Reem is also a teacher and photographer who loves to doodle. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and three daughters. Like Nurah, Reem loves the Karachi beaches, crows, her aquamarine silk hijab, and especially her grandmother, Nana. Unsettled is loosely based on Reem’s own story. Visit her online at www.reemfaruqi.com.

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Copyright

UNSETTLED. Copyright © 2021 by Reem Faruqi. Interior illustrations © 2021 by Soumbal Qureshi. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Cover art © 2021 by Soumbal Qureshi

Cover design by Molly Fehr

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Faruqi, Reem, author.

Title: Unsettled / Reem Faruqi.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : HarperCollins Children’s Books, [2021] | Audience: Ages 8–12. | Audience: Grades 4–6. | Summary: Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020044128 | ISBN 978-0-06-304470-8 (hardcover)

Subjects: CYAC: Novels in verse. | Immigration—Fiction. | Pakistani Americans—Fiction. | Family life—Fiction. | Muslims—United States—Fiction. | Swimming—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.5.F37 Uns 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020044128

Digital Edition MAY 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-304472-2

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-304470-8

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