# Kareem Between

**Author:** Shifa Saltagi Safadi
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**First published:** 2025
**Page count:** 337
**ISBN-13:** `9780593699287`
**ISBN-10:** `0593699289`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/kareem-between
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

\*\*WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Young People's Literature\*\* This heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh-grade Syrian American boy and his struggles, big and small, as he navigates middle school, now in paperback! "The exact type of book I would've loved, and needed, as a kid." — Jasmine Warga, New York Times bestselling author of and Newbery Honor recipient for Other Words for Home Seventh grade begins, and Kareem’s already fumbled it. His best friend moved away, he messed up his tryout for the football team, and because of his heritage, he was voluntold to show the new kid—a Syrian refugee with a thick and embarrassing accent—around school. Just when Kareem thinks his middle school life has imploded, the hotshot QB promises to get Kareem anoth

## Where this book is assigned

### National Book Award for Young People's Literature

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2024 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2024 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2024 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2024 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)

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