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Alma's Loyalty
Sassy Saints Series, Book 2
2022
First Published
4.22
Average Rating
288
Number of Pages

From award-winning young adult author Amra Pajalic comes a #ownvoices, found family, coming of age, YA novel for fans of Melina Marchetta and John Green. Alma’s perfect family is fractured when her father finds out he has a long-lost daughter from his first marriage. When his overtures are rebuffed, it’s up to Alma to bring her new-found sister, Sabiha, into the family fold. Now Alma is caught between family her feuding parents, the brother she grew up with and the sister she just met, the new friends she made who are conflicted in their loyalties between her and Sabiha. Can Alma maintain the role of the perfect daughter and find a way to navigate the competing loyalties in her life? Alma’s Loyalty is the second in the Sassy Saints Series for fans of fake friendships, secret boyfriends, long-lost relatives, and fierce and funny girls. "Pajalić bravely deals with some serious adolescent issues." (Kirkus Review) "Amra Pajalić writes with such honesty every young adult will empathise with her… While dealing with some ordinary 'stuff' Pajalic’s observations are sincere and often hilarious." (Bendigo Advertiser)

Avg Rating
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Number of Ratings
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Author

Amra Pajalic
Amra Pajalic
Author · 5 books

Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, an editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write own voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture. Amra Pajalić won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award for her debut novel The Good Daughter, now re-released as Sabiha's Dilemma (Pishukin Press, 2022). The anthology she co-edited, Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of the year awards and her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her short story collection The Cuckoo's Song (Pishukin Press, 2022) features previously published and prize-winning stories. She works as a high school teacher and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University. Her website is www.amrapajalic.com. Amra Pajalic also writes romance under pen name Mae Archer https://www.goodreads.com/mae\_archer Be sure to follow Amra on BookBub for the latest on sales https://www.bookbub.com/authors/amra-...

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