Rebels by Accident

What she wanted was a vacation. What she got was a revolution.

After attending her first high school party lands her in jail, Mariam thinks things can't possibly get worse. So when her parents send her to live with her grandmother in Cairo, she is sure her life is over. Her Sittu is Darth Vader's evil sister, and Mariam is convinced that the only sights she'll get to see in Egypt are the rooms in her grandmother's apartment.

Then a girl named Asmaa calls the people of Egypt to protest against their president, and Mariam finds herself in the middle of a revolution, running from teargas and falling in love for the first time, and having her first kiss.

"The Next Best Young Adult Novel. Educational without being preachy, light without being flimsy. ...Not only realistic, it's grounded in current events." The Huffington Post