A Goodreads review of The Parkour Club by Mariam Mohsen, a 16-year-old reader in Egypt
Co-authors Arooj Hayat and Pam Withers: “Promotes cross-cultural understanding”
“a story for the whole world to read and learn from”
“Islam is a really sensitive subject and it needs so much research — which both the authors have done spectacularly.”
“awesome and beneficial”
“The authors discussed Islam in a really marvelous way.”
“I really loved the writing style and the really good twists, which made me on edge through the whole book.”
“One of my favourite young-adult reads in 2020.”
“Such a phenomenal book like this, teaches so much… that we should never give up, and let anything or anyone affect our lives and dreams. We should never, ever lose hope. Life has a lot to teach you. I highly recommend it.”
Not everyone in the parkour club is who they seem. And for some, the question is: How fast do you have to run to escape the past?
Parkour enthusiast Bronte Miller is back from a year in Alexandria, Egypt, where her father was a war correspondent. It means she misses her secret Egyptian boyfriend and is bored in her desert hometown in Washington state. That is, until Yemeni refugee Karam Saif shows up, trying awkwardly to fit into American high school life.
“I can help him with that,” she thinks. Handsome, attentive and an ace parkour athlete, Karam seems the perfect antidote to her impossible home situation and not-happening readjustment to American life. Together, they and the Parkour Club party-it-up around town and revel in learning challenging new parkour moves. But both have Middle Eastern secrets that draw them ever closer to danger, and someone they can’t identify is meddling with their lives. Can they outrun the past, or join forces and save each other?
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