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    The Test Paper: Appreciating Your Unique Life
    The Test Paper: Appreciating Your Unique Life
    The Test Paper: Appreciating Your Unique Life
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    The Test Paper: Appreciating Your Unique Life

    By Umm Zakiyyah

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    The Test Paper teaches children to be grateful for their lives by understanding that getting what you want can come in ways you’d never expect. In this debut children’s book by Umm Zakiyyah, internationally acclaimed author of If I Should Speak and Muslim Girl, Zahra is sad that her friend Maha gets anything she wants. Maha even wins the top prizes at school. Zahra’s mother keeps telling Zahra that life is a test, so she should focus on getting what she wants in Paradise. But Zahra can’t think about that right now, because it’s award day and Maha might win the best prize again!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUmm Zakiyyah
    Release dateAug 25, 2016
    ISBN9781370069170
    The Test Paper: Appreciating Your Unique Life
    Author

    Umm Zakiyyah

    Umm Zakiyyah is the bestselling author of the novels If I Should Speak trilogy, Muslim Girl, and His Other Wife; and the self-help book for religious survivors of abuse Reverencing the Wombs That Broke You. She writes about the interfaith struggles of Muslims and Christians and the intercultural, spiritual, and moral struggles of Muslims in America. Her work has earned praise from writers, professors, and filmmakers and has been translated into multiple languages.

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    The Test Paper - Umm Zakiyyah

    The Test Paper

    Appreciating Your Unique Life

    By

    Umm Zakiyyah

    Illustrated by Lovyaa Garg

    The Test Paper: Appreciating Your Unique Life

    By Umm Zakiyyah

    Illustrations by Lovyaa Garg

    Copyright © 2016 by Al-Walaa Publications.

    All Rights Reserved.

    Print Book Info:

    ISBN: 978-1-942985-08-2

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2016913555

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, places, or events is coincidental.

    Order information at ummzakiyyah.com/store

    Published by Al-Walaa Publications

    Camp Springs, Maryland USA

    Table of Contents

    Glossary of Arabic Words

    The Test Paper

    About The Author

    Also by Umm Zakiyyah

    Glossary of Arabic Words

    Allah = God (Arabic word for God used by Arabs

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