Thanks! Ummi taught me and Adina helps me practice. Her English is the best out of all of us. She even writes poetry in it!

[She's so smart! The smartest. Nashir hopes he can be that good some day, even if he'll have to publish under a pen name since he's a boy.]

Baba doesn't always let me read those kind of stories, if the cover is too girly. People give him funny looks. He says I should be reading books with wars and heroes and horses instead. [He shrugs, as if to say 'dads, am I right?'] I'm glad you don't mind. And I do like other books! But sometimes I just want a story with magic in it, you know?

[Finally, someone who gets it.]