Jamilah is a Lebanese Muslim, though for the past three years of her life she has hidden her true identity from her peers at school.

Jamie is beginning year ten at Guildford High School, the students there are separated by their ethnic backgrounds.

The most popular boy in school is Peter Clarkson, who is notorious for his bullying, his teasing and also his hilarious tricks in class.

This includes her mother dying of a heart attack when she was just nine, her hopes, dreams, frustrations, the fact that her father is over-protective and has documented a Stone Age Charter of Curfew Rights and the Ten things she hates about herself.

Throughout the novel Jamie struggles to accept her true identity, carrying the fear of taunts and rejection from her classmates with her.