Borderline by Allan Stratton

Sami has been fitting in with his friends just fine ever since fourth grade.  But it is a slightly tenuous relationship because Sami is Muslim and his father just got arrested for being associated with a known terrorist.  Now his life is turned upside down as he tries to figure out how his father is associated with this other man.  He not only has to put the pieces of the puzzle together, but determine who he is in the process.

Sami’s friends are a couple of regular teenaged kids with their own life dilemmas, but I like that they stick by Sami through thick and thin.  Just when the reader thinks that they are going to take off and leave him to sort it out on his own, they become stand up friends.  This was a remarkable book, one every teenage boy should read if they are struggling with trying to figure out just where they stand in the world, no matter their ethnicity.

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