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Darius the Great is not okay / Adib Khorram.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.1.K5362 Dar 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khorram, Adib, author.
- Series:
- Khorram, Adib. Darius the Great is not okay ; 1.
- [Darius the Great] ; [1]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship.
- Grandparents--Juvenile fiction.
- Grandparents.
- Depression, Mental--Juvenile fiction.
- Depression, Mental.
- Iranian Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- Iranian Americans.
- Americans--Iran--Juvenile fiction.
- Americans.
- Iran--Juvenile fiction.
- Iran.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Grandparents--Fiction.
- Depression, Mental--Fiction.
- Iranian Americans--Fiction.
- Americans--Iran--Fiction.
- Iran--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Young adult fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Young adult works.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Darius the Great is not ok
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
- Summary:
- Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
- 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
- Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Young Adult Literature, Winner, 2018-2019
- Middle East Book Award - Youth Literature, Winner, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780525552963
- 0525552960
- 9780525553809
- 0525553800
- 0525552987
- 9780525552987
- OCLC:
- 1014374590
- Publisher Number:
- 40028810866
- 99979028169
- Online:
- Cover image
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