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Aliya's mother comes from a comfortable family of the middle class while her father comes from a poor background. When he was younger, he had to hawk on the streets with his sisters in order to assist his parents in making ends meet. See page 27

Gandhi is a great Indian leader and a thinker but he doesn't want political power for himself. See page 26- 28

Some of the acronyms used in the book are HAK [Hugs and Kisses]; KOTL [Kiss On The Lips]; OMG [Oh My God] and KPC [Keep Parents Clueless] See page 31

Rebecca in the book is stereotypical because she has a wrong idea about Muslims that they are all killers See page 41

After a shipwreck, a slave who has been ill-treated by the slave masters while he is aboard the ship woke up on an island and found one of his torturers with him. The slave master was badly wounded and unconscious but instead, at taking revenge by killing him or deserting him, he nursed the slave master back to health. See page 44

This statement is a lesson learnt from the story of the slave who nursed his torturer back to health. If someone hurts us, instead of taking revenge and making the cycle of wickedness never end, we should act nicely to such person and such a mean person will, in turn, became a better person, free from evil acts. See Page 42

Body shaming means making negative comments about someone's weight or size. Aliya is a girl who is plump and big. This makes her teacher call her FATima and LatiFAT in order to humiliate her because of her body size and shape. See page 46

Body shaming is spelt without an 'e', unlike ''shame'' Page 46

This quote explains that for a person to be respected, he must first respect himself. Though we can't control what people do or say at times, we can control how we feel and react to those actions. See

The Efik people of calabar have a culture where girls are held in seclusion in 'fattening rooms' where they are fattened up in preparation for marriage. See page 48

Being self-confidence includes feeling comfortable in one's skin and being proud of one's body shape, colour, size and one's stature in lfe. See page 48

The book is set in a Nigerian Muslim family. This is also evident in Mr. Bello's statement; "I guess it's not that different from the 'fattening rooms' among our new Efik people of Calabar..." The use of the Yoruba native language in the text is another evidence of the Nigeria settings.

Aliya wants to donate the Nebulizer to the school clinic in order to help the asthmatic students who don't have inhalers See page 51

Flashback is used when an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative. The letter received by Aliya is an example of the use of flashback in the text as well as the incident in chapter 2 titled ''The Drive''

Aliya is now in SS3 and she is going to be the Head Girl. See page 51