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Praise for Proud (Young Readers Edition):A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018"Engaging...Muhammad's ability to face down multiple challenges will doubtless be inspiring to young readers."―The Washington Post* "Readers who are already fans of [Ibtihaj] Muhammad will love her even more, and all readers will gain much inspiration from this heartfelt memoir of a true American hero. Like Muhammad herself, this book is a timely gift to us all."―Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "eye-opening...[Ibtihaj] Muhammad's story is an inspiring one that will encourage readers to question what it means to be American."―Booklist, starred review* "Fencer and Olympic medalist Muhammad pens an eminently readable account of her childhood through her win at the 2016 Rio Olympics in this must-have memoir."―School Library Journal, starred review"compulsively readable and highly relatable." ―VOYA

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About the Author

Ibtihaj Muhammad is best known for being the first Muslim American woman to wear hijab while competing for the United States in the Olympics and the first female Muslim-American athlete to medal in the Olympics, winning bronze with Team USA's Team Sabre. She grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, the daughter of a retired police officer and an elementary school special education teacher. She lives in New York City.

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Age Range: 10 - 13 years

Grade Level: 3 - 7

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Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Young Readers ed. edition (July 24, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0316477001

ISBN-13: 978-0316477000

Product Dimensions:

5.9 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches

Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.6 out of 5 stars

18 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#59,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

My child was inspired by her courage.

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My son could not put this book down! It is beautifully written with a great message and lesson for all. Highly recommend this book!

Young Reader Editions of adult books used to be so sad, but in the last half decade or so, they've really gotten so good. This is no exception.A look at how Muhammad found her passion for fencing and how her identity as a solidly middle class black hijab-wearing Muslim impacted her journey through a sport best known as one for upper class white people. Muhammad's passion for her family and deep need to reconnect with her spiritual side throughout her rise in the sport were wonderfully rendered here, too -- she is so relatable to so many teens and such a powerful role model for those teens who share any or all of her identities. She is who she wished she had when she were young.Recommended for readers who love sports memoirs or who want to see women of color and women of faith excelling in their areas of passion.

A very relatable story of overcoming obstacles and persistence, but with a less common heroine and obstacle to overcome!It’s written in a very accessible way for students down to the 4th grade. High elementary readers could easily read the book, but may struggle with comprehension without intentional support and check in.I work at a school that has a diverse population and I am constantly looking to diversify my book collection (at 4th grade) to have stories with narrators that are relatable to my least represented students. There are very few books that can appeal in a closely relatable way to my young Muslim girls. While there are more and more stories showing strong and competent female leads, every young girl is definitely looking for a tale that they can truly imagine is for them.I have to say that I don’t typically comment on the cover of a book, but the cover of this book has an extremely high ‘curb’ appeal. The combination of visual and word elements make my students pause and consider.I deeply appreciate having Ibtihaj’s personal story to share with my students who are looking to increase their catalog of relatable real-life heroines.

I loved this. This book is following in the footsteps of Undefeated, Soul Surfer, and I am Malala. These books show kids that history, culture, and faith are living ideas. These are the true heroes of today, not the overpaid professional athletes or talentless singers or "celebrities" who are only popular for taking their clothes off or spending too much money.Ibtihaj Muhammad is a young Muslim African American girl trying to fit in when she was meant to stand out. She is a master at fencing and broke many traditions in competing in the Olympics. This book is so good, I'm recommending it to the ELA teachers at the middle school I work at to incorporate it into classes.

I loved the guidance that she had from her parents. Her mother knew that fencing would be a great sport for Ibtihaj Muhammad even before she did and her dad loved and with her mother told her to never give up her dream. I would have like to read the adult version of this book because it tells her story in much more detail but my eyesight is poor so I am glad to read this young adult version.Learned some about fencing and I am impressed at how much stamina and determination it takes. I was surprised at how her team mates behaved. It is sad to see religious and cultural discrimination in sports. I found her parents very helpful in their strong support of her pursuit of her dream.

I chose to read this book for three reasons: I love to learn about women’s accomplishments in sports, my son joined his college’s fencing team this past year and the only review I found about the book was not the least bit helpful. Yesterday, I sat down and read the book cover to cover. I enjoyed learning some things about the Muslim religion, about author Ibtihaj Muhammad’s accomplishments and the tiny bit of positivity, like this line from the very beginning of the book, ““When you let your light shine, it illuminates everyone around you,” but the word that comes to mind when I think about the content as a whole is—frustration, which might best be summed up by a sentence from the prologue, “If you’ve had an opportunity taken from you because of your race, religion, or gender, I hope Proud inspires you.”The rest of this review contains spoilers. Read on at your own peril. First…a summary:An overview of this well-written (in terms of dotting all of the i’s and crossing all of the t’s and I realize that apostrophes aren’t needed but it doesn’t make sense without them) story is this: bright, beautiful Ibtihaj, third of five children, grows up in a tight-knit, upper middle-class family in an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse area of New Jersey. Her mother insists that the children play sports, and when Ibtihaj is ten, she agrees to try track as a summer sport at her mother’s encouragement (p 24), “Good,” my mom said, “I like the coaches over there. They’re all black and great role models for you and Qareeb.” During a meet, she learns the hard way that she’s not allowed to quit (p 27), “I don’t expect you to always win, but I expect you to give one hundred percent.” (p 35), “As soon as I turned eleven, my mother enrolled me in summer precollege programs at places like the New Jersey Institute of Technology (JNIT) and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. These courses were specifically targeted to high achieving black and Latino children, and I loved that the teachers there praised me for being smart and hardworking.” In the fall of her 8th grade year, her mother learns something that will change the course of her daughter’s life (p 39), “Columbia High School had one of the best fencing programs in the state, which was a significant honor because apparently New Jersey had the highest number of high school fencers in the country. (p 41) “By the time I came down for breakfast the next day, Mommy had tracked down the coach of the Columbia High School fencing team, and I had a private lesson scheduled for the next week.” She decides (p 45) “it wasn’t that exciting.” As she enters high school, she rethinks her earlier decision and joins the high school fencing team, primarily in hopes of earning a scholarship to an Ivy League college. She excels with the epee, but one day her coach suggests that she switch to the saber because he believes in her ability to become excellent at it and a starter on the saber squad. With lots of private instruction from the coach (on a team of over 100 fencers), she works extremely hard, joins the varsity starting lineup, performs well during competitions, and learns about the Peter Westbrook Foundation, created by a former fencing Olympian. They offer her a membership fee-free spot on the team and future help with funding for tournament expenses. She becomes a Junior Olympian (no relation). Through extreme academic and athletic efforts and an essay that she says was about (p 99), “how I didn’t let my race or religion stop me from getting ahead in a world that wasn’t kind to people who looked or worshipped like me,” she lands a spot at Duke, which she accepts because it comes with the biggest academic scholarship of her top college choices. She becomes part of the fencing team and the 2005 Junior Olympics National Champion. In college, she prioritizes fencing over academics (many of her teammates do the opposite) and changes her major to (p 110) “African and African American studies and international relations, with a focus on the Middle East, as well as minor in Arabic.” She continues to perform well but becomes disillusioned about fencing, attends a summer study-abroad trip to Morocco before her senior year, quits the team, graduates and, after struggling to find a job, ends up at the Dollar Store, reunites with her former high school coach, who tells her (p 137), “I think if you want to go all the way with fencing, you can,” accepts a job as at the Malcom X Shabazz High School in Newark teaching art history as a long-term sub (p 142), “my role wasn’t going to be teaching as much as making sure the students stayed in the classroom for forty-five minutes. It was more like babysitting, and sometimes I felt like an absolute failure.” She returns to fencing, and a year later, gains the benefit of a new fencing coach at the foundation, Akhnaten Spencer-El, and, a year later, earns a spot on the US world championship team, serves on the Department of State’s Council to Empower Women and Girls Through Sports, starts a clothing business, qualifies for the 2016 Olympic team and she, along with three other women saberists, win a bronze in the team competition.To me, that’s compelling stuff. I can’t even imagine all the work she put in not only to her academic pursuits but also to train to become an Olympic bronze medalist. The problem with the story—it’s absolutely filled with what I imagine is each and every negative behavior directed at her because she is (1) female, (2) African American, and/or (3) Muslim. The fact that throughout the story, she is offered (and accepts) an absolutely huge number of opportunities seems to take a back burner to what she perceives as sexism, racism and anti-Muslim behavior…sigh. Read for yourself…A substitute teacher gives her a nickname rather than learning how to pronounce her actual name (p ix), “She made another face [when Ibtihaj tries to explain how easy her name is to say], the kind you make when you taste something bitter. “Oh, that’s too hard,” she responded, shaking her head. “We’re going to call you Ibti.”A friend says (p 50), “I could never be a Muslim because I am always hot. Plus, I look too cute in tank tops.”Sam Jones, her hot-and-cold behaving coach at the Foundation (p 99) “he was also black and a Muslim like me,” she writes (p 100), “Maybe Sam felt uncomfortable around me because I wore hijab and he was a less conservative Muslim. Maybe he just didn’t like my personality.”Guy at a party during college (p 106), “Most were nice enough, but one wasn’t; he just wanted to tell me he’d never seen a Muslim at a party before.”Members of Duke’s Muslim Students Association (p 111), “As the only hijabi and one of only two black Muslims in the group, I felt like an outsider. The female upperclassmen did not approach me or make any real efforts to be my friend, so I went to the meetings only sporadically my first year.”Her lazy, racist teammates on the Duke fencing team (p 113), “But there were only one or two people on the team who shared my work ethic and had achieved the same level of success…My friend Josh and I were sometimes the target of “harmless jokes” and offhanded comments about the color of our skin. Our teammates thought it was funny, for example, to ask if we liked to eat fried chicken and watermelon for dinner.”A Cracker Barrel hostess who (p 113), “came over and offered to find a table for two—for me and the bus driver, who happened to be black. She must have assumed the two of us were together and not part of the fencing team. Everyone on the team burst out laughing, and not a single one of them spoke up to correct the woman’s mistake.”A (Pp 123, 125, 128) “tall, blond man” who suggests that adhering to her faith will affect her job performance, “I’m just wondering if there would be any conflict with your, um, lifestyle choices that might interfere with the work we do here,””I didn’t want to assume that my difficulty in landing a job was because of my religion, my last name, or because I wore a hijab, but I wasn’t naïve. It was at least part of the problem.”About coaches at the foundation before she had one who supported her (p 150), “I wasn’t used to being praised by the coaches at the foundation for my skill or promise. More often than not, they seemed to see potential only in the male saber fencers.”(p 171), “At age twenty-four, after working with my new coach for just a year, with the odds stacked against me, I had finally made it.”Polish saber fencer and national team coach Ed Korfanty, can barely pronounce her nickname, and tells her (p 183), “Don’t be so quick to give up. Don’t be lazy.” After she defeats a teammate (p 229), rips into Mariel, the woman she beat, “What were you doing out there?...How could you let her beat you?” When Mariel beats her at a later competition, Ibtihaj’s mom congratulates her but (p 239), “Mariel didn’t respond, only half turning to barely smile in our direction.”Her national teammates, who do not show her the friendship, respect or camaraderie she deserved, (p 185) excluded her from their dinner plans and (p 187) “didn’t understand who [she] was as a fencer…Like so many black athletes, I was being pigeonholed as strong but not smart.”Her friend Habiba, who announces to an admirer that Ibtihaj isn’t an Olympian (p 198), “it reminded me of all the people who hadn’t believed in me—because I was black, because I was a woman, because I was Muslim, or because I was too old.”After she defeats a teammate and encounters her at a restaurant with two other teammates (p 205), “We waited to see if our teammates would ask us to join them. They didn’t. In fact, they didn’t even wave.”After finishing the book, it's clear that Ibtihaj achieved greatness through hard work, determination and grit. She stresses that her success is in spite of discrimination but I see a pile of opportunities that helped her achieve these amazing goals. If the author's recounting of her life so far can be thought of as a glass containing water, Proud reads as a glass half empty when from the outside looking in, it appears that the glass is half full. In summary, Ibtihaj’s accomplishments are impressive and her story is book-worthy, but except for some interesting facts about the Muslim religion and fencing, I’m not sure about its potential appeal to its (Young Readers) target audience.

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