It Ain't So Awful, FalafelZomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block...for the fourth time. California’s Newport Beach is her family’s latest perch, and she’s determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name—Cindy. It’s the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes more difficult as Iran makes U.S. headlines with protests, revolution, and finally the taking of American hostages. Even puka shell necklaces, pool parties, and flying fish can't distract Cindy from the anti-Iran sentiments that creep way too close to home. A poignant yet lighthearted middle grade debut from the author of the bestselling Funny in Farsi.
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Contents
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| 10 | |
| 13 | |
Love Will Keep Us Together | 19 |
Buy Three Get One Free | 21 |
Price of Friendship | 27 |
The Captain and Me | 29 |
Trashy Drama | 230 |
Sugar Corn Pops | 233 |
Where the Red Fern Dies | 234 |
ClickClack | 236 |
Give Me Your Tired Your Poor Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free | 239 |
Day 14 | 241 |
A Note Not From Hallmark | 243 |
V is for Vendetta | 247 |
Lucky Dogs | 33 |
Sultans of Suntan | 35 |
Saint AnTony | 38 |
Cinema Rex | 42 |
Go Fish | 44 |
Tuna | 51 |
The Hawaiian Islands | 53 |
Life as a Turtle | 55 |
Pasta | 60 |
No Pain No Gain | 64 |
Never Owned a Camel | 67 |
Its a Good Thing | 70 |
TGIF | 74 |
George | 79 |
Bravo | 82 |
Zenith | 85 |
Mexican Heaven | 90 |
Pistachio | 97 |
Aloha Polar Bear | 99 |
Blanche Dubois | 103 |
Klutz | 106 |
Skip | 110 |
Halloween | 114 |
Poo Poo | 122 |
An Afternoon with John Wayne and Elvis Presley | 128 |
Mount Laundry | 131 |
At Last | 134 |
Radish Roses | 135 |
Some of the Trimmings | 137 |
Uncle Bahbak | 141 |
January 17 1979 | 143 |
Ayatollah Khomeini | 146 |
Allo Allo | 148 |
Speech | 152 |
Shalom Salam Hola Howdy | 157 |
February 1979 | 159 |
February 11 1979 | 161 |
A Slice of Key Lime Pie with a Scoop of Dignity Please | 163 |
Girls Rule Not Anymore | 167 |
Allo Allo | 170 |
Last Chance Clearance | 175 |
Where the Mild Things Are | 179 |
Name Change Game Change | 183 |
Are you There Allah? Its Me Zomorod | 189 |
Chapter Four Pool Rules | 196 |
TwentySix Miles Across the Sea | 201 |
Oh Heck Its OPEC | 209 |
Buttercup | 211 |
Seventh Grade | 213 |
Sixty Minutes | 216 |
October 23 1979 | 219 |
Halloween 1979 | 220 |
November 4 1979 | 222 |
Wrong | 223 |
November 8 1979 | 224 |
ByeBye Froufrou | 225 |
Circle Time | 228 |
Proof | 249 |
Love Makes This House A Home | 254 |
To Think Deeply About Something | 257 |
Day 16 | 259 |
Just another Thursday in November | 260 |
Mary Elizabeth Crenshaw | 261 |
Please Ask Me About Camels Instead | 265 |
Go Brock | 266 |
Cowboys and Iranians | 270 |
If Only Your Accent Were French or English or Anything Else | 272 |
Brock Rocks | 273 |
Of Mice and Men and Metaphors | 275 |
A Real Drip | 279 |
The Plan | 281 |
A Ham for a Turkey | 283 |
Not Without My Ham | 286 |
AOkay | 290 |
Its Not Like On TV | 292 |
Miss Information | 295 |
December 15 1979 | 296 |
No HoHoHo | 299 |
December 27 1979 | 300 |
Roll of Thunder Hear My Thanks | 301 |
My Favorite Hostage | 302 |
Read All About It | 304 |
Let There Be Light | 309 |
Aint It Awful Falafel? | 310 |
Gray Skies | 313 |
Valedictorian | 315 |
Summer of 80 | 317 |
Thirteen | 318 |
Curtains Closed | 320 |
Forever Yours | 322 |
Uncle Jamshids Neighbors Cousin | 323 |
We Do Exist Really | 326 |
July 27 1980 | 328 |
Ring Ring Ring | 329 |
Eighth Grade | 331 |
Sequin Sisters | 334 |
Halloween | 335 |
Following the Rules | 338 |
November 5 1980 | 340 |
December 19 1980 | 341 |
My Favorite Hostage Part II | 342 |
The French Boy | 343 |
January 20 1981 | 347 |
Day 445 | 348 |
Foiled | 351 |
Foiled Again | 354 |
Original Cindy | 358 |
Skip Again | 361 |
Holy Mole | 366 |
Back Matter | 372 |
Back Flap | 379 |
Back Cover | 380 |
Spine | 381 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abadan America Ayatollah Khomeini back to Iran Brock camp candy Carolyn asks Carolyn says Cindy’s Compton costume dad says dad’s dead hamster didn’t doesn’t door English falafel Fashion Island father feel friends Girl Scout go back grade guess guys Halloween hamster happen hate he’s hear hello hostages Howie huge Iran Iranians Khomeini kids Klein laugh Lip Smacker listening living look lunch Matt mean Mick Jagger minutes Miss DeAngelo mother never Newport Beach nice Nowruz Okay Original Cindy parents Persian pool key Pooya puka shell Rachel says Carolyn shah she’s sitting Skip smiling sofa someone soon sounds starts stuff sure taco talking tell Thank There’s They’re thing told trash trick-or-treating trying turns walk watching we’re wearing week What’s Williams Yeah yells you’re Zomorod