num_pages: 320
description: A coming-of-age novel in verse set in 1980s Southern California about a Persian American girl who rides the waves falls and finds her way back to the shoreThirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD and catching waves with her best friend Phoenix lets her fit inher olive skin looks tan not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital to follow in her single mothers footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenixs past lymphoma surges back not even surfing singing or poetry can keep them afloat threatening Avas hold on the one place and the one person that make her feel like she belongs. With ocean-like rhythm and lyricism Wave is about a girl who rides the waves tumbles and finds her way back to the shore.
language: English
title: Wave
publisher: Harry N. Abrams