Bhai for Now
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A fresh and fun new spin on the Parent-Trap story, by Indies Introduce author Maleeha Siddiqui
Ashar is busy with the ice hockey team, studying to get into the best school, and hanging out with his friends.
Shaheer and his father are always moving, following his dad's jobs. Shaheer has given up hope of finding a place where he can put down roots, a place that feels like home.
The two boys have nothing in common.
But when they meet on Shaheer's first day at his new school, it’s like looking in a mirror.
They quickly figure out that they're twins, separated as babies. And they are determined to do whatever it takes—including secretly switching identities—to get to know the parent they've been separated from.
This is the story of two long-lost brothers who, while they might not like each other, just might need each other.
Bhai for Now is by turns heartwarming and hilarious, and with a unforgettable Muslim family and friendship story at its core.
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In a lively Parent Trap–inspired, Northern Virginia–set novel from Siddiqui (Barakah Beats), estranged identical twins come face-to-face at the same middle school. Outgoing Ashar, who grew up with the siblings' teacher mother, loves ice hockey and hopes to make the NHL; aloof Shaheer, an interior design fan who longs to stay put, moves regularly with the boys' restless doctor father and paternal grandfather. When the Muslim, Pakistani American eighth graders meet for the first time since their parents' divorce, which occurred during the twins' infancy, they scheme to switch places. Soon, Ashar is visiting Washington, D.C., with their father as he tries to understand what, if not proximity, makes a family, and Shaheer is helping to renovate a masjid with their mother, engaging with his interest in design. Alternating third-person chapters follow the boys' home lives, their elaborate ruse, and their growing desire to continue living near one another, in a quick-moving slice-of-life novel with warm relationships, a focus on community, and nostalgia appeal. Ages 8–12.
