Author Hens Khan outside herself with the sequel to Amina's Voice. In Amina's Song Amina world to figure out who she is and where she really belongs. Feeling out of place between two countries. She tries to find courage to speak her truth and not just use her voice to sing. It was an incredible story of identity, belonging and finding your voice.

Amina's story in Amina's Song is one of transformation, but it's different from the last book for many reasons, Amina is older and more confident. This time she's not just trying to stretch her own metaphorical wings she's dealing with what it means to be Pakistani-American and how being both is a complicated thing.

Amina loves both cultures but she's struggling with how to show it. She's also struggling against the opinions that people in her class have about women in Pakistan, never having met anyone. Couple that with her cousin Zohra's negative feelings about American and she's not sure where she fits.

Especially after she chooses to represent Pakistan by doing a project on Malala Yousafzai<to help represent her culture. Her Thaya Jaan (uncle) is proud of her choice and she doesn't want to let him down especially after he's going through health troubles that have the whole family worried.

But with a unique take on the project and with the help of a new friend with her music she might be able to show everyone the beautiful parts of Pakistan she's been struggling to show everyone all along.

This is a sequel from Amina's Voice. We read Amina's Voice as a Project LIT book when our club first started. So Amina holds a special place in my heart. In Amina's Song, she starts to grow into a young adult. She starts off visiting Pakistan and she has to come back home where she has a hard time adjusting back to her normal life. I think many people can relate to visiting a place and making incredible memories, but having a hard time sharing it with family and friends. The author does a great job of connecting the read to Amina's feelings and opinions while reading the book.

I read Amina’s Voice a little while ago, so I was excited to read Amina’s Song.

This book starts out with Amina visiting her family in Pakistan and learning more about her heritage. Amina’s cousins show her what it is really like to live in Pakistan and not just what the American news tells her. When she gets home, Amina is sad that her friends don’t want to know more about her family or her visit. She struggles to tell them how she feels now that she is home, and feels a little out of place when school starts. Through a class project Amina looks for ways to tell her friends about the real Pakistan and what it means to her. She makes a new friend along the way and rediscovers what makes her older friendships so special. I loved learning more about Pakistan and seeing the relationship between Amin’s and her family there.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy.

Absolutely beautiful, just as good as the first book. Amina faces difficulties and worries just as in the first book, struggling as she sees herself part of two worlds, as well as worrying about her family.

This is the year of sequels that stand up to, or even surpass, the original book, and Hena Khan has done it as well. I loved having a chance to see Pakistan through Amina’s eyes, and the way she helped educate her classmates was perfectly depicted. The friendship with Nico was a welcome addition, and I appreciated how Khan navigated the line between friendship and romance...where others assumed romance, Amina wanted a friend. I honestly loved everything about this book and will miss the characters now that I’m done.

I was so excited to be granted my wish! In Amina's Song, we see Amina during her last few days of a summer trip to Pakistan. Khan's descriptions are beautiful and lyrical and transport the reader to Pakistan. Amina struggles a bit upon her return because she wants to share her trip with her friends and she also misses her extended family very much. She also makes new friends and learns how to hold on to old friends when varied interests pull them in different directions. A wonderful extension of Amina's story!

Beautifully sensitive and honest writing invite Amina back to our hearts and minds in this book. We are further introduced to her home country of Pakistan and how her feelings for it impacts her life and choices in America. If you want to imagine being positioned between two different cultures, Amina's Voice will help you understand. This book represents middle school challenges just right for all readers. Clubs, friends, parents, and dating are sprinkled throughout. Just beautiful!

This book was received as an ARC from Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I absolutely loved this book and everything it represents. The appreciation and love Amina had for Pakistan and everything it had to offer her and most importantly how she was inspired to do a report on Malala Yousafzai even though it did not end on a positive note. She was so passionate and determined to see the cultural value of Pakistan that she did not give up in convincing her classmates that there is not only good in Pakistan but there is good in the world despite what else is going on. After finishing this book, I know our community will embrace this book since a good portion of our community is from Pakistan and appreciate the love for the culture and overall theme of this book.

We will consider adding this title to our JFiction collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

In this book, we get to go to Lahore, Pakistan with Amina as she spends time with her beloved uncle, Thaya Jaan and grows close to her cousin, Zohra while exploring her family's homeland. When Amina returns to the US she feels proud of her Pakistani heritage, but also is cognizant of the stereotypes others have of Pakistan and even some she herself had. With that in mind, as well as her uncle's parting challenge that she show people in America how amazing Pakistan is, Amina sets out to find a way to show others that Pakistan is more than just what they've heard on the news. Along the way, she navigates old and new friendships, explores her developing song writing talents and deals with a family member's health scare. Amina weaves all her struggles and triumphs into her own unique song and finds her voice is stronger than ever! Fans of Amina's voice will not be disappointed with this sequel. I hope there are many more Amina stories to come!

This was an excellent companion book to Amina’s Voice. After being in Pakistan, Amina wants to share her knowledge and the beauty of her beloved country and isn’t sure how until she has a school project to do and decides to do it on Malala. Through this project and the help of supportive friends , Amina feels she is able to show the positives and the beauty of her country and not the negative past that so many know. Great book.

In my school district, we loved Amina’s Voice so much that we put it on our Battle of the Books list. So many students in 4th and 5th grade found reading this title to be time well spent. It got so much love and was widely talked about. Thus, I was enthused to have my wish granted to read this sequel. My students are going to be as in love with the second book as they were with the first one! I loved that the book started out with Amina visiting her family in Pakistan. The opening chapter definitely pulls you in. I picked this up today and didn’t put it down until I finished. The characters and their experiences are interesting and thought-provoking. I will definitely add it to the library collection and will be sharing it with students right when it comes out.