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Units Teaching this Work
| Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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Does My Head Look Big in This?
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2005
Z1208243
2005
single work
novel
young adult
(taught in 4 units)
'Welcome to my world. I'm Amal Abdel-Hakim, a seventeen year-old Australian-Palestinian-Muslim still trying to come to grips with my various identity hyphens. It's hard enough being cool as a teenager when being one issue behind in the latest Cosmo is enough to disqualify you from the in-group. Try wearing a veil on your head and practising the bum's up position at lunchtime and you know you're in for a tough time at school. Luckily my friends support me, although they've got a few troubles of their own. Simone is blonde and gorgeous but has serious image issues and Leila's really intelligent but her parents are more interested in her getting a marriage certificate that her high school certificate! And I thought I had problems...' (Source: back cover).
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Contemporary Australian Children's Literature | Charles Darwin University | 2011 |
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y
Does My Head Look Big in This?
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2005
Z1208243
2005
single work
novel
young adult
(taught in 4 units)
'Welcome to my world. I'm Amal Abdel-Hakim, a seventeen year-old Australian-Palestinian-Muslim still trying to come to grips with my various identity hyphens. It's hard enough being cool as a teenager when being one issue behind in the latest Cosmo is enough to disqualify you from the in-group. Try wearing a veil on your head and practising the bum's up position at lunchtime and you know you're in for a tough time at school. Luckily my friends support me, although they've got a few troubles of their own. Simone is blonde and gorgeous but has serious image issues and Leila's really intelligent but her parents are more interested in her getting a marriage certificate that her high school certificate! And I thought I had problems...' (Source: back cover).
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Australian Film and Literature | University of South Australia | 2011 (Semester 2) |
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y
Does My Head Look Big in This?
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2005
Z1208243
2005
single work
novel
young adult
(taught in 4 units)
'Welcome to my world. I'm Amal Abdel-Hakim, a seventeen year-old Australian-Palestinian-Muslim still trying to come to grips with my various identity hyphens. It's hard enough being cool as a teenager when being one issue behind in the latest Cosmo is enough to disqualify you from the in-group. Try wearing a veil on your head and practising the bum's up position at lunchtime and you know you're in for a tough time at school. Luckily my friends support me, although they've got a few troubles of their own. Simone is blonde and gorgeous but has serious image issues and Leila's really intelligent but her parents are more interested in her getting a marriage certificate that her high school certificate! And I thought I had problems...' (Source: back cover).
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Australia Imagined: Identity and Diversity in Australian Film and Literature | University of South Australia | 2012 (Semester 2) |
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y
Does My Head Look Big in This?
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2005
Z1208243
2005
single work
novel
young adult
(taught in 4 units)
'Welcome to my world. I'm Amal Abdel-Hakim, a seventeen year-old Australian-Palestinian-Muslim still trying to come to grips with my various identity hyphens. It's hard enough being cool as a teenager when being one issue behind in the latest Cosmo is enough to disqualify you from the in-group. Try wearing a veil on your head and practising the bum's up position at lunchtime and you know you're in for a tough time at school. Luckily my friends support me, although they've got a few troubles of their own. Simone is blonde and gorgeous but has serious image issues and Leila's really intelligent but her parents are more interested in her getting a marriage certificate that her high school certificate! And I thought I had problems...' (Source: back cover).
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Social Justice and Children's Literature | University of Wollongong | 2015 (Semester 2) |
