Saints and Misfits

Author(s): S. K. Ali

YA Fiction

A William C. Morrow Award Finalist
An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017


There are three kinds of people in my world:


1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They're in your face so much, you can't see them, like how you can't see your nose.


2. Misfits, people who don't belong. Like me--the way I don't fit into Dad's brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mama's-Boy-Muhammad.


Also, there's Jeremy and me. Misfits. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we don't go together. Same planet, different worlds.


But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right?


3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O'Connor's stories.


Like the monster at my mosque.


People think he's holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask.


Except me.


Product Information

Saints and Misfits is a "timely and authentic" (School Library Journal, starred review) debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life...starring a Muslim teen.

General Fields

  • : 9781481499255
  • : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  • : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  • : June 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : S. K. Ali
  • : Paperback
  • : 1808
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 336